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Emmanuel Rajapandian

Pyraminx · top 0.67% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015RAJA03

Emmanuel Rajapandian has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.70, set at CMI Autumn Open 2018, puts him in the top 0.67% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in India. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since January 2015, he has put 963 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 12.49 in January 2015 to 1.70, an 86% improvement. Emmanuel has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.67% of 129,321 all-time
1.70
signature single · CMI Autumn Open 2018
963
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Pyraminx1.702.74
top 0.67%27 / 8,934
2×22.403.17
top 8.0%637 / 12,146
3×310.3712.37
top 8.6%969 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed17.5321.74
top 13.9%473 / 4,516
Skewb4.726.53
top 16.1%437 / 3,524
4×447.7453.67
top 21.8%638 / 4,186
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves35.00
top 23.4%88 / 600
Clock16.1019.42
top 52.2%438 / 1,092

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

PB Smashathon 2015: 12.49MathSoc Open 2015: 6.50FMCed 2015: 5.30National Cubing Region Open 2015: 3.14Akash Open 2015: 3.57Plenty o' Parity 2015: 4.43Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 3.81Indian Nationals 2016: 2.92SSN Cube Open 2017: 3.25VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2017: 2.39Grand Cube Open 2017: 3.27Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 2.11CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 2.90Takshashila Cube Open 2018: 1.97SRM Cube Open 2018: 2.58Indian Nationals 2018: 2.76SSN Cube Open 2018: 3.22IIITDM Cube Open 2018: 2.20Gravitas Cube Open 2018: 2.55CMI Autumn Open 2018: 1.70Phoenix C3 Open 2018: 2.69Shaastra Cube Open 2019: 1.73CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2019: 2.59Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 2.64Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 2.24SSN Cube Open 2019: 2.17HLC Cube Challenge 2019: 2.82CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 2.29SSN Cube Open 2022: 2.30Cubing Sunday in SSN 2022: 3.27CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 2.26MCC Cube Open 2023: 3.49Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023: 2.55Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025: 3.08Oakridge Independence Cube Open 2026: 2.031.7012.4917 Jan 201515 Aug 2026

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.