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Manan Joshi

3×3 · top 6.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2016 · 2016JOSH04

Manan Joshi has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.52, set at Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 652nd in India. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since February 2016, he has put 82 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.35 in February 2016 to 9.52, a 45% improvement. Manan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.52
signature single · Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019
82
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.5211.28
top 6.2%652 / 20,018
4×442.9846.35
top 15.7%429 / 4,186
2×23.173.84
top 16.3%1,350 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed18.7820.72
top 17.2%592 / 4,516
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves
top 17.4%56 / 600
Megaminx1:16.351:31.81
top 19.5%183 / 1,443

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

SCMU Open 2016: 17.35Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019: 9.529.5217.356 Feb 201610 Aug 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.52 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 2.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.