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Mukund Karthik

3×3 one-handed · top 2.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015KART01

Mukund Karthik has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.54, set at New Zealand Nationals 2018, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 28th in New Zealand. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since September 2015, he has put 807 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.37 in September 2015 to 7.91, a 49% improvement. Mukund has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.4% of 73,695 all-time
11.54
signature single · New Zealand Nationals 2018
807
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×3 one-handed11.5414.98
top 2.4%28 / 600
3×37.919.65
top 2.6%82 / 2,095
4×431.7633.24
top 4.0%42 / 722
2×21.993.36
top 4.7%113 / 1,615
5×51:05.871:10.39
top 9.0%37 / 355
Pyraminx4.577.51
top 10.6%157 / 1,141
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves
early days — 3 solves29 / 111
Skewb5.287.40
top 20.3%162 / 666
6×62:21.932:43.33
top 21.5%41 / 149
Square-118.1625.41
top 23.7%71 / 251
Megaminx1:51.492:10.84
top 41.2%133 / 283
7×74:42.114:54.51
top 45.1%72 / 126
Clock43.07
early days — 1 solve297 / 303

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

Hamilton Spring 2015: 15.37New Zealand Nationals 2015: 12.01Wellington Autumn 2016: 12.02Hamilton Winter 2016: 10.14Palmerston North 2016: 9.91New Zealand Nationals 2016: 9.77SNZ Southern 2017: 8.58Techweek NZ 2017: 9.79SNZ Northern 2017: 8.83Hamilton Spring 2017: 9.14New Zealand Nationals 2017: 9.07NxNZ Open 2018: 8.96New Zealand Nationals 2018: 7.917.9115.3727 Sep 201514 Dec 2018

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 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.54 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.