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Ashwani Kumar Shivankar

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017SHIV01

Ashwani Kumar Shivankar has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.96, set at Raipur Cube Championship 2018, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 251st in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since September 2017, he has put 276 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.96 in September 2017 to 7.96, a 27% improvement. Ashwani has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.96
signature single · Raipur Cube Championship 2018
276
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×37.969.96
top 2.7%251 / 20,018
2×22.183.42
top 6.0%468 / 12,146
4×434.4437.31
top 6.2%165 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed14.5120.43
top 7.1%218 / 4,516
5×51:20.851:27.79
top 19.8%219 / 1,525
6×63:04.643:25.00
early days — 3 solves187 / 531
Megaminx2:30.612:36.97
top 61.3%715 / 1,443

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

Raipur Cube Challenge 2017: 10.96Raipur Cube Challenge 2.0 2017: 11.26Raipur Summer Cube Open 2018: 8.79Raipur Cube Championship 2018: 7.96Independence Cube Open 2019: 9.09Mor Raipur Cubing Challenge 2022: 9.547.9611.2610 Sep 201718 Dec 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.96 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.