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Kiran Kulkarni

2×2 · top 9.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2017 · 2017KULK05

Kiran Kulkarni has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.53, set at Tesseract Open 2019, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 741st in India. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since February 2017, he has put 186 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.16 in February 2017 to 12.20, a 53% improvement. Kiran has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.2% of 186,767 all-time
2.53
signature single · Tesseract Open 2019
186
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×22.535.14
top 9.2%741 / 12,146
3×312.2013.26
top 14.6%1,781 / 20,018
Pyraminx7.119.56
top 28.7%1,774 / 8,934
4×41:14.321:34.22
top 51.0%1,710 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed33.6135.67
top 54.6%2,135 / 4,516
Clock1:19.35
early days — 2 solves1,080 / 1,092

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

SynoCubix Open 2017: 26.16i.Cube Open 2017: 16.87DA-IICT Open 2018: 12.32PDPU Open 2019: 12.98Amalthea Open 2019: 12.37Tesseract Open 2019: 12.65Synocubix 2020: 12.2012.2026.1626 Feb 201716 Feb 2020

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.