People · India
Manan Patel
3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014PATE01
Manan Patel has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.36, set at DA-IICT Open 2018, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 600th in India. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since May 2014, he has put 652 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.06 in May 2014 to 9.36, a 38% improvement. Manan has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.36 | 11.70 | top 5.7% | 600 / 20,018 | |
| 4×4 | 36.79 | 39.12 | top 8.5% | 227 / 4,186 | |
| 2×2 | 2.51 | 4.25 | top 9.0% | 731 / 12,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.74 | 6.04 | top 11.6% | 671 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.59 | 23.92 | top 14.0% | 482 / 4,516 | |
| Skewb | 4.51 | 9.56 | top 14.5% | 393 / 3,524 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.04 | 1:27.77 | top 18.3% | 201 / 1,525 | |
| 6×6 | 2:49.21 | 2:58.28 | top 35.7% | 147 / 531 | |
| 7×7 | 4:39.60 | 4:55.67 | top 44.4% | 140 / 360 | |
| Megaminx | 3:13.02 | 3:31.97 | top 78.6% | 969 / 1,443 | |
| Square-1 | 1:10.62 | 1:30.38 | top 89.3% | 659 / 805 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Oct 2018Three personal bests in one day at DA-IICT Open 2018.
- 24 Jun 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.78 at Cube Fiesta Surat 2018.
- 24 Jun 2018Four personal bests in one day at Cube Fiesta Surat 2018.
- 22 Jul 2017Six personal bests in one day at Gujarat Cube Days 2017.
- 25 Apr 2015Three personal bests in one day at Doylestown Spring 2015.
- 18 Oct 2014First sub-15 3×3: 12.37 at DJ Open 2014.
Competitions
- BlithCube Open 2023 · 18 Feb 2023
- PDPU Open 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
- VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018 · 28 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- DA-IICT Open 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Caarn Ahmedabad Cube Open 2018 · 25 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Fiesta Surat 2018 · 24 Jun 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- i.Cube Open 2017 · 28 Oct 2017
- Gujarat Cube Days 2017 · 22 Jul 2017 — 6 personal bests set
- Amalthea SCMU Open 2015 · 24 Oct 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Doylestown Spring 2015 · 25 Apr 2015 — 3 personal bests set
- Genius Kid India Open 2014 · 21 Dec 2014 — 1 personal best set
- DJ Open 2014 · 18 Oct 2014 — 5 personal bests set
- Mumbai Summer Open 2014 · 3 May 2014 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Shresth Shah — met in 98 rounds, finished ahead 63 times · head to head
- Kush Jajal — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 37 times · head to head
- Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (अभिजीत घोडगावकर) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.36 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.