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Mahith Bandi

4×4 · top 0.28% of 83,917 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014BAND04

Mahith Bandi has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 22.63, set at DFW NxN Winter 2020, puts him in the top 0.28% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in the United States. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since July 2014, he has put 2,444 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.58 in July 2014 to 5.62, a 70% improvement. Mahith has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.28% of 83,917 all-time
22.63
signature single · DFW NxN Winter 2020
2,444
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×422.6329.92
top 0.28%48 / 19,072
3×35.627.14
top 0.3%200 / 59,724
2×21.052.10
top 0.66%274 / 40,951
5×546.6053.64
top 0.95%80 / 9,401
7×72:07.512:23.48
top 1.1%31 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed10.7713.98
top 1.6%262 / 15,683
6×61:30.101:39.91
top 1.9%73 / 4,196
Pyraminx2.625.62
top 2.5%666 / 28,708
Skewb2.704.59
top 3.6%568 / 18,907
Megaminx56.271:06.10
top 8.0%559 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves36.33
top 14.8%327 / 2,040
Square-119.7328.24
top 27.4%1,798 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded3:00.08—
top 52.4%1,110 / 2,092

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

Keep Austin Weird 2014: 18.58Dallas Back to School 2015: 12.23HOOAH SMA 2015: 10.27Dallas Winter 2015: 8.57OKCubing 2016: 9.21Dallas Spring 2016: 8.60Austin Summer Open 2016: 9.65Westlake Open 2016: 8.70Oklahoma Fall 2016: 8.99Dallas Fall 2016: 7.61Dallas Winter Variation 2017: 7.78College Station Qualifier 2017: 7.26CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.33Wake Up Late 2017: 7.59Yeehaw 2017: 6.80Parity for Charity 2017: 7.36Howdy Partner 2018: 7.76Odd Cubing Day 2018: 7.95Spring Forward 2018: 7.98Longhorn Spring 2018: 7.53CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 7.84Dallas Fort Worth 2018: 7.22Turning in Texas 2018: 7.78DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 7.31DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 7.32CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.10DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 7.65Oklahoma Fall 2018: 7.48DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018: 7.43Trinity Valley Open 2018: 7.28Dallas Winter 2018: 7.07Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 5.62Oklahoma Open 2019: 7.62Frisco Liberty Cubing 2019: 7.183x3x3 Cube Frisco 2019: 6.65Katy Cubing 2019: 6.49Trinity Valley Open Spring 2019: 7.02DFW With A Twist 2019: 7.26Ready For Summer Frisco 2019: 7.75CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 6.52Dallas Warm Up 2019: 5.65CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.44Back to School DFW 2019: 6.46Waco Cube Assembly 2019: 5.77345 Cube Day Allen 2019: 5.95Fort Worth Fall Fiesta 2019: 6.92DFW NxN Winter 2020: 6.50Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020: 6.79DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 6.95Keep Austin Weird 2023: 7.925.6218.5819 Jul 201410 Dec 2023

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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 2.63 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.