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Kamal Kandpal

3×3 · top 0.92% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018KAND02

Kamal Kandpal has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.58, set at Solved Central Alberta 2023, puts him in the top 0.92% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 95th in Canada. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since January 2018, he has put 441 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.74 in January 2018 to 6.58, a 52% improvement. Kamal has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.92% of 284,439 all-time
6.58
signature single · Solved Central Alberta 2023
441
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.588.66
top 0.92%95 / 10,392
4×429.1131.77
top 2.3%57 / 3,118
5×555.6256.27
top 3.6%35 / 1,499
6×61:44.641:47.82
top 5.4%23 / 665
Square-110.0711.56
top 6.2%43 / 952
2×22.203.17
top 6.2%403 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed14.9918.50
top 8.1%176 / 2,620
7×73:00.763:05.09
top 10.8%35 / 503
Pyraminx5.1410.11
top 14.1%553 / 4,858
Clock9.1511.56
top 20.8%177 / 1,029
Megaminx1:34.351:43.73
top 30.9%311 / 1,375
Skewb12.2219.71
top 67.1%1,903 / 2,907

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

Cubing Under the Stars 2018: 13.74Canada's Best in the West 2018: 12.27Edmonton New Year 2019: 10.75Canada's Wild West 2019: 9.64Foothills Final Fight 2019: 9.77Sherwood Park Summer 2019: 8.91Strathcona 2019: 9.40Solved Central Alberta 2019: 7.66Alberta 5th Anniversary 2020: 8.89Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2023: 7.28Solved Central Alberta 2023: 6.58Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 8.436.5813.7420 Jan 201827 Jan 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.

  • James Deibert — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
  • Alex Mutch — met in 85 rounds, finished ahead 53 times
  • Noah Wilde — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 48 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.