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Aryan Puri

3×3 · top 7.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015PURI04

Aryan Puri has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.91, set at Plenty o' Parity 2015, puts him in the top 7.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 797th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since October 2015, he has put 168 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.07 in October 2015 to 9.91, a 10% improvement. Aryan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.2% of 288,433 all-time
9.91
signature single · Plenty o' Parity 2015
168
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.9112.05
top 7.2%797 / 20,146
2×22.514.53
top 9.1%745 / 12,225
3×3 one-handed25.2829.10
top 35.1%1,272 / 4,534
Pyraminx9.6412.29
top 50.2%3,350 / 8,971

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

Delhi Autumn Open 2015: 11.07Plenty o' Parity 2015: 9.91Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 11.29MathSoc Open 2016: 11.27Indian Nationals 2016: 9.96Cubing Complexity 2016: 10.549.9111.2917 Oct 201517 Dec 2016

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 — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.91 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.