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Nirupam Patil

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015PATI02

Nirupam Patil has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.97, set at Quark Cubix Challenge 2020, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 815th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2015, he has put 88 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.69 in December 2015 to 9.97, a 60% improvement. Nirupam has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.97
signature single · Quark Cubix Challenge 2020
88
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.9712.88
top 7.4%815 / 20,018
Pyraminx6.4710.03
top 23.6%1,436 / 8,934
4×454.6459.81
top 30.3%926 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed26.7127.72
top 38.6%1,404 / 4,516
2×26.036.57
top 51.2%4,964 / 12,146
Skewb18.8825.14
top 87.8%2,746 / 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

SCMU-Pune Fall Open V3.0 2015: 24.69Rubik's Cube Pune Open 2016: 11.95Quark Cubix Challenge 2020: 9.979.9724.6913 Dec 20152 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.97 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.