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Ankan Ashish Shah

2×2 · top 14.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022SHAH28

Ankan Ashish Shah has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.98, set at BASC 56 - Bay Area Side Events Day 2024, puts him in the top 14.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,504th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since August 2022, he has put 106 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 2×2 best has come down from 14.44 in August 2022 to 2.98, a 79% improvement. Ankan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 14.0% of 186,767 all-time
2.98
signature single · BASC 56 - Bay Area Side Events Day 2024
106
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.987.16
top 14.0%5,504 / 40,951
3×320.1725.47
top 40.4%22,982 / 59,724
Clock14.8716.64
top 47.4%3,837 / 8,927
Skewb10.3716.65
top 57.2%10,436 / 18,907
Pyraminx11.2014.78
top 62.0%18,215 / 28,708
4×41:33.95
top 66.5%11,755 / 19,072
Megaminx3:57.14
early days — 1 solve7,209 / 7,841
5×53:57.04
early days — 3 solves8,627 / 9,401

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 36 2022: 14.44Bay Area Speedcubin' 43 2023: 8.86SacCubing XVI 2024: 5.79BASC 56 - Bay Area Side Events Day 2024: 2.982.9814.446 Aug 202224 Feb 2024

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.