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Ishaan Balakrishnan

3×3 · top 18.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017BALA11

Ishaan Balakrishnan has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.26, set at Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017, puts him in the top 18.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,296th in India. Across 2 competitions since August 2017, he has put 54 official solves on the record across six events. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.16 in August 2017 to 13.26, a 27% improvement. Ishaan has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 18.3% of 284,439 all-time
13.26
signature single · Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017
54
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×313.2615.02
top 18.3%2,296 / 20,018
2×24.796.93
top 36.6%3,362 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed26.0234.78
top 36.9%1,334 / 4,516
Pyraminx10.4213.74
top 56.2%3,812 / 8,934
4×41:21.201:30.44
top 56.9%1,954 / 4,186
Skewb12.8816.46
top 70.1%2,087 / 3,524

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

Cerulean 2017: 18.16Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017: 13.2613.2618.1620 Aug 201728 Oct 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.