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Atharva Nanavate

3×3 · top 7.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015NANA01

Atharva Nanavate has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.08, set at Cerulean 2017, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 873rd in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since December 2015, he has put 146 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 53.65 in December 2015 to 10.08, an 81% improvement. Atharva has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 288,433 all-time
10.08
signature single · Cerulean 2017
146
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.0819.21
top 7.7%873 / 20,146
2×25.197.98
top 41.7%3,924 / 12,225
3×3 one-handed33.8638.21
top 55.2%2,167 / 4,534
Pyraminx14.4623.47
top 79.8%6,032 / 8,971
3×3 Fewest Moves56 moves60.00
early days — 3 solves517 / 612
Skewb21.2625.86
top 91.4%2,923 / 3,548
4×42:48.96—
top 95.1%3,770 / 4,220
Megaminx5:51.17—
early days — 1 solve1,396 / 1,458
Square-12:28.80—
early days — 1 solve800 / 813

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

SCMU-Pune Fall Open V3.0 2015: 53.65SCMU ICT Open 2016: 31.59SCMU 2016: 22.25KJSCE Mumbai Open 2016: 25.52Rubik's Cube Pune Open 2016: 23.05Maharashtra Championship 2016: 18.58Cubelelo Winter Open 2016: 17.98Polyhedra Open 2017: 15.95Indian Nationals 2017: 17.18Cerulean 2017: 10.08Indian Nationals 2018: 18.4810.0853.6513 Dec 201525 May 2018

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 — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 74,472 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.