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Manav Desai

3×3 · top 30.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2014 · 2014DESA03

Manav Desai has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.89, set at River Hill Fall 2015, puts him in the top 30.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,898th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since September 2014, he has put 59 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.44 in September 2014 to 16.89, a 28% improvement. Manav has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.6% of 284,439 all-time
16.89
signature single · River Hill Fall 2015
59
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.8918.38
top 30.6%16,898 / 59,724
2×24.706.64
top 35.5%14,170 / 40,951
4×41:33.492:11.19
top 66.2%11,690 / 19,072
Pyraminx17.1519.55
top 88.1%25,911 / 28,708

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

River Hill Summer 2014: 23.44Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 32.77River Hill Winter 2015: 25.95Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 23.89Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 21.39River Hill Fall 2015: 16.89Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 19.4516.8932.776 Sep 201430 Jan 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.89 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.