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Hersh Shrivastava

3×3 one-handed · top 2.7% of 73,695 all-time · competing since November 2010 · 2010SHRI02

Hersh Shrivastava has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.77, set at Penn Cube Day Spring 2019, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 428th in the United States. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since November 2010, he has put 467 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.44 in November 2010 to 8.20, a 73% improvement. Hersh has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.7% of 73,695 all-time
11.77
signature single · Penn Cube Day Spring 2019
467
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed11.7714.59
top 2.7%428 / 15,683
3×38.2010.24
top 3.1%1,788 / 59,724
4×437.1045.52
top 8.8%1,325 / 19,072
2×23.595.17
top 21.3%8,333 / 40,951
5×51:31.431:34.69
top 28.5%2,239 / 9,401

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

Princeton Fall 2010: 30.44Liberty Science Center Open 2010: 19.61Park Ridge Open 2011: 12.65Hackley Summer 2011: 13.91Princeton Fall 2011: 14.40Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 11.06Bridgewater Open 2011: 11.84Newark Head to Head 2012: 12.71Captain's Cove competition 2012: 12.59Jersey Shore Open 2012: 11.40Princeton Fall 2012: 10.94Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 10.71Monmouth County Open 2013: 9.71Princeton Spring 2013: 11.21Princeton Winter 2014: 11.59Doylestown Spring 2015: 11.61Manhasset Fall 2015: 9.93Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 10.37Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 8.88Scranton Scramble 2020: 8.208.2030.446 Nov 201018 Jan 2020

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 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.