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Raghav Bansal

Skewb · top 5.9% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015BANS01

Raghav Bansal has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.18, set at Chandigarh Open 2019, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 147th in India. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since January 2015, he has put 210 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:05.12 in January 2015 to 14.46, a 78% improvement. Raghav has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 5.9% of 73,281 all-time
3.18
signature single · Chandigarh Open 2019
210
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Skewb3.185.48
top 5.9%147 / 3,524
3×314.4617.87
top 22.6%2,905 / 20,018
2×24.716.72
top 35.6%3,243 / 12,146
Pyraminx13.2618.00
top 74.3%5,456 / 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

PB Smashathon 2015: 1:05.12National Cubing Region Open 2015: 38.35Bahrain Open 2017: 38.44Five Rivers Cube Open 2017: 25.00LPU National Cube Challenge 2018: 22.15Five Rivers Cube Open 2018: 16.95BCM Arya Cubing Challenge 2018: 14.46Chandigarh Open 2019: 15.90BCM Arya Cubing Challenge 2019: 15.0314.461:05.1217 Jan 201524 Nov 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-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.