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Chaitanya Srikanth Rao

2×2 · top 8.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018RAOC01

Chaitanya Srikanth Rao has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.49, set at Chennai Cube Open 2019, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 716th in India. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since October 2018, he has put 214 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 10.95 in October 2018 to 4.28, a 61% improvement. Chaitanya has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 8.8% of 186,767 all-time
2.49
signature single · Chennai Cube Open 2019
214
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×22.495.15
top 8.8%716 / 12,146
Pyraminx4.287.93
top 9.1%524 / 8,934
3×315.1618.94
top 25.0%3,254 / 20,018
Skewb10.6616.87
top 58.9%1,710 / 3,524
4×41:25.371:48.98
top 60.2%2,091 / 4,186

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

CMI Autumn Open 2018: 10.95Phoenix C3 Open 2018: 7.86Shaastra Cube Open 2019: 6.49Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 6.47Bengaluru Cool Down 2019: 5.96Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 6.40mcubes Open 2019: 6.39Chennai Cube Open 2019: 7.21HLC Cube Challenge 2019: 6.21SRM Cube Open 2019: 5.00CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 4.28Cult A Way Cube Open 2020: 5.384.2810.9527 Oct 20189 Feb 2020

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.