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Madan Nabel

3×3 · top 32.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022NABE02

Madan Nabel has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.47, set at CubingUSA Nationals 2023, puts him in the top 32.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,998th in the United States. Across 12 competitions since July 2022, he has put 142 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.45 in July 2022 to 17.47, a 63% improvement. Madan has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 32.5% of 284,439 all-time
17.47
signature single · CubingUSA Nationals 2023
142
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.4722.55
top 32.5%17,998 / 59,724
Pyraminx8.2328.59
top 38.2%10,893 / 28,708
2×25.017.31
top 39.4%15,823 / 40,951
Skewb8.3117.32
top 43.6%7,665 / 18,907
Clock1:12.82
early days — 2 solves8,910 / 8,927

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

New York Championship 2022: 47.45Granite State 2022: 47.14Maine Fall 2022: 26.12Loon Cubikon 2022: 22.36Puzzling in Providence 2023: 26.88Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 21.04Garden City Winter 2023: 22.01Cape Cod 2023: 20.73New Hampshire Spring 2023: 20.69CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 17.47CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 18.62Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 19.2917.4747.452 Jul 202218 Jul 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.47 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.