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Manish Kumar

3×3 · top 21.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015MANI05

Manish Kumar has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.11, set at IIA Summer Open April 2017, puts him in the top 21.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,717th in India. Across 4 competitions since August 2015, he has put 75 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.23 in August 2015 to 14.11, a 67% improvement. Manish has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.4% of 284,439 all-time
14.11
signature single · IIA Summer Open April 2017
75
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×314.1118.32
top 21.4%2,717 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed21.1831.52
top 23.7%858 / 4,516
2×24.846.07
top 37.3%3,427 / 12,146
Skewb13.1914.41
top 71.5%2,134 / 3,524

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

Brain Studio Cube Open 2015: 42.23APJ BLD Open 2015: 30.75IIA Summer Open 2016: 15.01IIA Summer Open April 2017: 14.1114.1142.2329 Aug 201522 Apr 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.11 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 1.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.