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Ranphoa Ngowa

Pyraminx · top 14.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since February 2008 · 2008NGOW01

Ranphoa Ngowa has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.20, set at Barpeta Winter Cube Open 2024, puts him in the top 14.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 833rd in India. Across 22 competitions since February 2008, he has put 905 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:22.38 in February 2008 to 12.35, an 85% improvement. Ranphoa has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 14.4% of 129,321 all-time
5.20
signature single · Barpeta Winter Cube Open 2024
905
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Pyraminx5.208.42
top 14.4%833 / 8,934
3×312.3516.50
top 15.1%1,851 / 20,018
2×23.135.26
top 15.8%1,317 / 12,146
4×457.851:06.17
top 34.1%1,060 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed25.1929.74
top 34.7%1,256 / 4,516
5×52:02.632:20.00
top 50.9%657 / 1,525
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves43.33
top 51.8%252 / 600
Square-133.0245.16
top 55.1%386 / 805
Skewb10.8716.29
top 60.1%1,752 / 3,524
Megaminx2:59.523:14.36
top 74.1%890 / 1,443
6×64:43.354:58.46
top 78.0%399 / 531
Clock27.8537.79
top 81.6%786 / 1,092
3×3 blindfolded5:16.92
top 81.9%445 / 598
7×78:35.04
early days — 2 solves329 / 360
3×3 Multi-Blind1 of 2 cubes · 13:11
early days — 1 solve159 / 168

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: 1:22.38Shaastra Open 2008: 33.65Indian Open 2009: 26.58Shristi Open 2009: 23.46Shaastra Open 2009: 20.38Mumbai Open 2010: 17.69Rubik's Cube Delhi Open 2011: 13.88IIT Roorkee Open 2012: 17.52Delhi Open 2013: 16.78IIT Roorkee Cube Open 2013: 16.37Delhi Summer Open 2013: 14.80Delhi Open 2014: 12.35IIT Roorkee Open 2014: 14.58National Cubing Region Open 2014: 16.73Cubing V1.0 2014: 15.11Delhi Autumn Open 2015: 17.07Ignus Open 2016: 13.36Indian Nationals 2016: 12.60P3 Grand Open - Jan 2017: 14.67Cubing ATMOSphere 2017: 15.18Barpeta Winter Cube Open 2024: 18.2112.351:22.3816 Feb 200829 Dec 2024

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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.