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Arya Swaminathan

3×3 · top 10.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018SWAM05

Arya Swaminathan has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.03, set at Spokane Summer 2022, puts him in the top 10.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,719th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since October 2018, he has put 126 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.34 in October 2018 to 11.03, a 48% improvement. Arya has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.03
signature single · Spokane Summer 2022
126
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.0313.47
top 10.6%5,719 / 59,724
2×23.183.74
top 16.4%6,428 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.059.47
top 20.4%5,477 / 28,708
5×51:51.412:06.34
top 43.6%3,573 / 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

Yakima Valley Cubing Fall 2018: 21.34SnoCo Fall 2018: 23.20Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 19.23West Seattle Favorites 2019: 16.04Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 17.58Spokane Summer 2022: 11.03SnoCo Favorites 2022: 12.46SnoCo NxN 2022: 11.9011.0323.2013 Oct 201824 Sep 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.03 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.