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Akshita Paluru

3×3 · top 30.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022PALU01

Akshita Paluru has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.77, set at Davis Fall 2023, puts her in the top 30.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,659th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since March 2022, she has put 168 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.32 in March 2022 to 16.77, a 13% improvement. Akshita has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.3% of 284,439 all-time
16.77
signature single · Davis Fall 2023
168
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.7719.85
top 30.3%16,659 / 59,724
Skewb7.7512.80
top 39.4%6,782 / 18,907
Pyraminx8.5712.61
top 41.1%11,795 / 28,708
2×25.406.82
top 44.2%17,814 / 40,951
4×41:16.741:32.31
top 53.2%9,038 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed1:11.29
early days — 3 solves13,670 / 15,683

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

SacCubing XI 2022: 19.32Bay Area Speedcubin' 29 AM 2022: 21.12Bay Area Speedcubin' 31A - Mill Valley 2022: 19.03SacCubing XII 2022: 20.98SacCubing XIII 2023: 22.56Berkeley Spring 2023: 24.87Bay Area Speedcubin' 43 2023: 18.07Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023: 19.09Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 17.79Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 18.01Davis Fall 2023: 16.7716.7724.8727 Mar 202229 Oct 2023

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as she improves.