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Ashwin Ramesh

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2012 · 2012RAME01

Ashwin Ramesh has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.24, set at Forum Monsoon Open 2019, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 577th in India. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2012, he has put 559 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.88 in January 2012 to 9.24, a 54% improvement. Ashwin has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.24
signature single · Forum Monsoon Open 2019
559
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.2410.22
top 5.4%577 / 20,018
Pyraminx3.516.43
top 5.5%312 / 8,934
Megaminx52.7057.97
top 6.3%51 / 1,443
2×22.354.49
top 7.5%593 / 12,146
5×51:10.641:19.21
top 12.0%137 / 1,525
3×3 one-handed17.2720.92
top 13.3%446 / 4,516
4×442.0345.59
top 14.6%393 / 4,186
7×74:01.484:55.10
top 31.3%95 / 360
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
early days — 3 solves163 / 600
6×62:53.853:02.84
top 38.0%158 / 531
Square-127.2441.17
top 44.0%309 / 805
Clock24.0937.28
top 74.9%707 / 1,092
3×3 blindfolded6:17.73
early days — 3 solves491 / 598

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

Indian Open 2012: 19.88Pragyan Cube Open 2012: 16.06Chennai Mathematical Institute Open 2012: 15.90CMI Fiesta Open 2013: 11.24Indian Cube Challenge 2013: 13.00VIT Rubik's Challenge 2013: 11.90Shaastra Cube Open 2014: 11.73Pantheon Cube Open 2014: 11.25Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 11.00Forum Monsoon Open 2019: 9.249.2419.8827 Jan 201220 Jul 2019

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 1.24 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.