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Nitesh Jha

3×3 · top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017JHAN01

Nitesh Jha has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.96, set at Bengaluru Cool Down 2019, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 806th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2017, he has put 272 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.69 in March 2017 to 9.96, a 15% improvement. Nitesh has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.96
signature single · Bengaluru Cool Down 2019
272
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.9611.24
top 7.3%806 / 20,018
3×3 blindfolded57.21
top 12.1%46 / 598
Megaminx1:17.001:24.22
top 19.9%186 / 1,443
4×448.1855.96
top 22.3%656 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed22.1926.54
top 26.6%958 / 4,516
2×24.526.39
top 33.2%2,953 / 12,146
Pyraminx8.2210.96
top 38.1%2,427 / 8,934

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

Anaadyanta Cube Open 2017: 11.69ICC Juniors August 2017: 11.63APJ BLD Open 2017: 11.80Aboard the Pyraminx Train 2018: 11.47Anaadyanta Cube Open 2018: 12.08Oakridge Cube Open - April 2018: 11.97Bengaluru Championship 2018: 11.60Bangalore Open 2018: 10.12Bengaluru Cool Down 2019: 9.969.9612.0811 Mar 201720 Apr 2019

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 1.96 away.
  • A sub-50 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,207 people have one; it is 7.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.