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Pulkit Bansal

3×3 · top 12.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2008 · 2008BANS01

Pulkit Bansal has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.66, set at Indian Open 2012, puts him in the top 12.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,499th in India. Across 5 competitions since February 2008, he has put 106 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 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.73 in February 2008 to 11.66, a 76% improvement. Pulkit has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.7% of 284,439 all-time
11.66
signature single · Indian Open 2012
106
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×311.6614.42
top 12.7%1,499 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed29.4737.25
top 45.4%1,693 / 4,516
4×41:21.361:29.19
top 57.0%1,963 / 4,186
2×29.9415.69
top 77.7%8,241 / 12,146

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

Indian Open 2008: 48.73Indian Open 2009: 19.93Indian Open 2010: 15.33Indian Open Rubik's Cube 2011: 12.09Indian Open 2012: 11.6611.6648.7316 Feb 200827 Jan 2012

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 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 4.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.