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Akshay Tonde

3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017TOND01

Akshay Tonde has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.66, set at Cubing ATMOSphere 2018, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 697th in India. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2017, he has put 236 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.18 in March 2017 to 9.66, a 44% improvement. Akshay has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.66
signature single · Cubing ATMOSphere 2018
236
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.6611.83
top 6.5%697 / 20,018
5×51:09.081:14.12
top 11.0%124 / 1,525
Pyraminx5.0110.42
top 13.2%770 / 8,934
4×441.6046.19
top 14.0%382 / 4,186
2×23.164.12
top 16.1%1,344 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed20.2726.25
top 21.2%756 / 4,516
Megaminx1:59.552:14.58
top 45.4%510 / 1,443
6×63:22.433:36.68
early days — 3 solves236 / 531
Skewb13.3517.38
top 72.2%2,161 / 3,524

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

P3 Grand Open - March 2017: 17.18Geethanjali Monsoon Open 2018: 10.14Cubing ATMOSphere 2018: 9.66Geethanjali Cube Open 2019: 9.97Deccan Cube Open July 2019: 10.549.6617.1826 Mar 201714 Jul 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 9.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.