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Manas Kakade

3×3 · top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014KAKA01

Manas Kakade has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.75, set at SCMU 2016, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,103rd in India. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since July 2014, he has put 147 official solves on the record across four 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.11 in July 2014 to 10.75, a 33% improvement. Manas has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.75
signature single · SCMU 2016
147
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 standingIndia
3×310.7512.70
top 9.7%1,103 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed16.2822.50
top 10.9%354 / 4,516
2×24.205.30
top 29.1%2,541 / 12,146
4×41:02.711:13.09
top 39.4%1,258 / 4,186

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

Indian Nationals 2014: 16.11DJ Open 2014: 12.54Speed Cubing Mumbai Unlimited 2015: 12.79SCMU 2016: 10.7510.7516.1125 Jul 201417 Jun 2016

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.