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Ganesh Matta

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015MATT06

Ganesh Matta has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.43, set at Oakridge Cube Open - April 2018, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 144th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since October 2015, he has put 627 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.38 in October 2015 to 7.43, a 57% improvement. Ganesh has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.43
signature single · Oakridge Cube Open - April 2018
627
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.438.86
top 1.9%144 / 6,689
4×431.7634.65
top 4.0%104 / 2,071
Pyraminx3.286.03
top 4.6%175 / 3,656
2×21.993.11
top 4.7%338 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed15.0918.91
top 8.3%164 / 1,851
Skewb4.166.46
top 12.0%273 / 2,421
5×51:11.031:26.18
top 12.3%170 / 1,151
Square-116.5118.07
top 19.8%198 / 778
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves
early days — 2 solves167 / 372
3×3 blindfolded3:15.693:37.17
top 56.8%215 / 311
Clock21.4428.98
top 68.6%859 / 1,232

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

REC Cube Challenge 2015: 17.38APJ BLD Open 2015: 13.39Brain Studio Winter Open 2015: 15.62Indian Nationals 2017: 11.78Oakridge Cube Open - April 2018: 7.43Bengaluru Cool Down 2019: 8.38Forum Monsoon Open 2019: 10.08Nexus Winter Open 2022: 7.60Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Saturday 2023: 8.51Bangalore Championship 2023: 7.97Bangalore Cube Open 2024: 7.477.4317.382 Oct 201521 Dec 2024

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.