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Anurag Jain

3×3 · top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015JAIN03

Anurag Jain has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.96, set at Nexus Winter Open 2022, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 806th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2015, he has put 170 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.88 in January 2015 to 9.96, a 60% improvement. Anurag has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.96
signature single · Nexus Winter Open 2022
170
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.9611.61
top 7.3%806 / 20,018
2×22.815.86
top 12.1%1,007 / 12,146
5×51:12.321:17.15
top 13.3%151 / 1,525
4×441.5046.39
top 13.9%378 / 4,186
Megaminx1:31.651:38.71
top 29.3%297 / 1,443
Pyraminx7.5010.57
top 32.0%2,030 / 8,934
6×62:48.962:52.47
top 35.6%146 / 531
3×3 one-handed34.2138.84
top 55.8%2,187 / 4,516
7×76:45.027:29.66
early days — 3 solves273 / 360

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

PB Smashathon 2015: 24.88Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 10.48Indian Nationals 2016: 11.42National Cubing Region Open 2016: 12.35Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2016: 13.04SNU Open 2017: 13.09Nexus Winter Open 2022: 9.969.9624.8817 Jan 201526 Nov 2022

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 1.96 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.