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Ishaan Deshmukh

2×2 · top 4.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021DESH01

Ishaan Deshmukh has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.97, set at Garden City Winter 2023, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,814th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since July 2021, he has put 306 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.01 in July 2021 to 9.99, a 38% improvement. Ishaan has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.5% of 186,767 all-time
1.97
signature single · Garden City Winter 2023
306
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.973.73
top 4.5%1,814 / 40,951
3×39.9912.07
top 7.4%4,080 / 59,724
Square-114.8220.74
top 16.0%1,084 / 6,743
4×447.3454.53
top 21.3%3,231 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded2:08.47
top 36.2%760 / 2,092
Pyraminx8.2113.87
top 38.0%10,842 / 28,708
Clock13.0014.94
top 39.6%3,151 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed28.1331.36
top 42.3%5,676 / 15,683
5×51:52.022:09.03
top 44.0%3,613 / 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

Empire State Summer A 2021: 16.01Granite State 2022: 12.79St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 12.33Cubing in Beverly 2022: 11.57Naticube 2022: 10.59Puzzling in Providence 2023: 9.99Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 11.36Garden City Winter 2023: 10.88Rhode Island Winter 2024: 12.02Fall River Cubikon 2024: 11.12The Battle of Concord 2024: 11.80Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 14.109.9916.0131 Jul 202115 Sep 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.