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Dakshin Vinod

Pyraminx · top 0.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017VINO03

Dakshin Vinod has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.85, set at mcubes Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 37th in India. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2017, he has put 348 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 7 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.45 in October 2017 to 8.47, a 77% improvement. Dakshin has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.9% of 129,321 all-time
1.85
signature single · mcubes Open 2019
348
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Pyraminx1.852.50
top 0.9%37 / 8,934
2×21.572.85
top 2.5%184 / 12,146
3×38.4710.48
top 3.7%359 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed16.1222.42
top 10.5%339 / 4,516
4×41:16.931:25.41
top 53.3%1,801 / 4,186
3×3 blindfolded5:04.80
early days — 3 solves431 / 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

CET Cubing Paradox 2017: 36.45Drishti Cube Open 2018: 22.30Cult A Way Cube Open 2018: 17.14Venice of the East Open 2018: 17.65Cubing Kerala Aleppey Open 2018: 13.29Cult A Way Cube Open 2019: 9.67mcubes Open 2019: 8.68KES Cube Open 2019: 8.47Cult A Way Cube Open 2020: 11.27mcubes Open 2022: 8.72mcubes Cube Open 2023: 9.678.4736.451 Oct 201729 Jul 2023

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.