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Raghav Arora

3×3 · top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015AROR04

Raghav Arora has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.93, set at MathSoc Open 2018, puts him in the top 7.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 794th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since February 2015, he has put 92 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.39 in February 2015 to 9.93, a 31% improvement. Raghav has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.93
signature single · MathSoc Open 2018
92
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.9311.92
top 7.3%794 / 20,018
2×22.663.74
top 10.5%870 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed35.1041.87
top 57.4%2,278 / 4,516
4×41:22.281:29.82
top 57.7%1,990 / 4,186
3×3 blindfolded5:03.926:01.64
top 80.1%428 / 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

MathSoc Open 2015: 14.39National Cubing Region Open 2015: 14.43Cubing Complexity 2016: 12.51Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2017: 10.19MathSoc Open 2018: 9.939.9314.4321 Feb 201527 Jan 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.