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Raghuraman Rajagopalan

3×3 · top 29.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015RAJA01

Raghuraman Rajagopalan has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.56, set at Grand Cube Open 2017, puts him in the top 29.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,975th in India. Across 14 competitions since January 2015, he has put 148 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.30 in January 2015 to 16.56, a 58% improvement. Raghuraman has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.6% of 284,439 all-time
16.56
signature single · Grand Cube Open 2017
148
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×316.5620.04
top 29.6%3,975 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed23.7628.96
top 30.8%1,136 / 4,516
3×3 blindfolded2:53.12
top 50.5%246 / 598
2×26.0410.93
top 51.3%4,985 / 12,146
4×43:18.96
early days — 1 solve3,948 / 4,186

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

Shaastra Cube Open 2015: 39.30REC Cube Open 2015: 25.01Indian Nationals 2015: 20.85REC Cube Challenge 2015: 21.97Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 18.15SSN Cube Open 2016: 19.95Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 17.77SRM Cube Open 2017: 19.40Grand Cube Open 2017: 16.56Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 20.33CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 16.59Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 17.32Takshashila Cube Open 2018: 18.02SSN Cube Open 2018: 16.8716.5639.303 Jan 201528 Jul 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.56 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 3.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.