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Karthikeyan Eswaran

3×3 · top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014ESWA01

Karthikeyan Eswaran has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.95, set at Montfort Championship 2016, puts him in the top 10.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,183rd in India. Across 17 competitions since August 2014, he has put 750 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.43 in August 2014 to 10.95, a 53% improvement. Karthikeyan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.95
signature single · Montfort Championship 2016
750
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.9515.39
top 10.3%1,183 / 20,018
Square-113.5016.80
top 12.9%78 / 805
2×23.035.51
top 14.6%1,203 / 12,146
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves46.00
top 14.8%41 / 600
3×3 one-handed19.3923.11
top 18.9%664 / 4,516
Pyraminx6.529.29
top 24.0%1,468 / 8,934
3×3 blindfolded1:33.743:02.11
top 24.5%103 / 598
4×451.721:00.59
top 26.8%794 / 4,186
Skewb7.0810.50
top 34.3%967 / 3,524
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 57:35
top 40.3%57 / 168
5×52:02.992:11.19
top 51.1%665 / 1,525
Megaminx2:11.502:22.43
top 52.0%604 / 1,443
Clock19.8024.30
top 64.0%572 / 1,092
6×64:39.314:46.61
top 77.1%392 / 531
7×76:53.347:19.73
top 79.0%280 / 360
5×5 blindfolded27:55.00
early days — 1 solve20 / 31
4×4 blindfolded17:31.00
early days — 2 solves56 / 69

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

Indian Cube Challenge 2014: 23.43Aaruush Cube Open 2014: 23.51Shaastra Cube Open 2015: 20.30Indian Nationals 2015: 19.80REC Cube Challenge 2015: 15.77Tathva Cube Open 2015: 16.25Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 17.88VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2016: 16.38Montfort Championship 2016: 10.95Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 13.88Carte Blanche Kube Open 2017: 14.99Anokha Cubing Royale 2017: 13.06Drishti Cube Open 2017: 11.81SRM Cube Open 2017: 13.35Ban Parity Open 2017: 11.99Indian Nationals 2017: 13.1410.9523.5115 Aug 201412 May 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-12 Square-1 single — 2,502 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.