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Joel Vinod Jacob
3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024JACO11
Joel Vinod Jacob has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.84, set at CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 449th in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since May 2024, he has put 162 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.73 in May 2024 to 8.84, a 25% improvement. Joel has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.84 | 11.32 | top 4.5% | 449 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 2.52 | 4.50 | top 9.1% | 736 / 12,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.76 | 8.82 | top 11.7% | 674 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.84 | 21.28 | top 14.7% | 503 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 1:13.97 | 1:22.57 | top 50.7% | 1,692 / 4,186 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 May 2024First sub-10 3×3: 8.84 at CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024.
- 18 May 2024Four personal bests in one day at CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024.
- 11 May 2024First competition: Bengaluru Summer 2024. A 11.73 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- VR Bengaluru Cube Open A 2025 · 26 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- M5 Summer Open A Bengaluru 2025 · 10 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Bangalore Cube Fest C 2024 · 30 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Bengaluru Summer 2024 · 11 May 2024
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.
- Nirmal Reddy — met in 26 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Mohith B (ಮೋಹಿತ್ ಬಿ) — met in 26 rounds, never finished ahead
- Arun Kannan — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
Targets move as he improves.