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Pawan Dhananjay

3×3 · top 44.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2010 · 2010DHAN01

Pawan Dhananjay has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.47, set at Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011, puts him in the top 44.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,366th in India. Across 2 competitions since February 2010, he has put 40 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Pawan has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 44.0% of 284,439 all-time
21.47
signature single · Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×321.4725.22
top 44.0%6,366 / 20,018
4×41:42.591:53.63
top 72.3%2,576 / 4,186
2×29.4410.31
top 75.6%7,955 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed55.0558.32
top 80.8%3,335 / 4,516
3×3 blindfolded6:31.93
early days — 1 solve508 / 598

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

Mumbai Open 2010: 21.65Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011: 21.4721.4721.656 Feb 20105 Feb 2011

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 6 Feb 2010First competition: Mumbai Open 2010. A 21.65 3×3 single to start from.

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-1:30 4×4 single — 53,325 people have one; it is 12.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.