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Rishabh Ranjan

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019RANJ02

Rishabh Ranjan has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.08, set at Flag City Summer 2023, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 528th in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2019, he has put 198 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.04 in March 2019 to 9.08, a 61% improvement. Rishabh has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.08
signature single · Flag City Summer 2023
198
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.0810.60
top 5.1%528 / 20,018
Pyraminx4.557.55
top 10.5%606 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed16.3318.86
top 11.0%356 / 4,516
2×23.043.97
top 14.7%1,213 / 12,146
4×444.3057.67
top 17.4%482 / 4,186
Skewb7.0314.58
top 33.9%954 / 3,524
5×51:42.391:49.97
top 37.2%461 / 1,525
Megaminx2:06.27
early days — 2 solves567 / 1,443

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

Arnold Classic North America 2019: 23.04Kent State Taco Bash 2019: 15.74Bulldog Qualifier 2019: 10.98Battle for Toledo 2019: 13.58Indiana 2019: 18.35Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 10.10Flag City Fall 2019: 10.12Flag City Summer 2023: 9.089.0823.042 Mar 201922 Jul 2023

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 1.08 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.