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Rishith Shyamkumar Nellippillil

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013NELL01

Rishith Shyamkumar Nellippillil has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.65, set at Moscow South-West Open 2015, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,064th in India. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since November 2013, he has put 411 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.18 in November 2013 to 10.65, a 41% improvement. Rishith has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.65
signature single · Moscow South-West Open 2015
411
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.6511.92
top 9.4%1,064 / 20,018
4×439.2048.07
top 11.2%300 / 4,186
2×22.774.12
top 11.7%970 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed19.7924.55
top 19.9%710 / 4,516
5×51:28.961:43.69
top 26.4%315 / 1,525
Pyraminx7.5713.50
top 32.6%2,066 / 8,934
Megaminx1:40.021:46.95
top 34.6%366 / 1,443
Square-133.0251.16
top 55.1%386 / 805
6×64:14.14
early days — 1 solve357 / 531

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

MPEI Open 2013: 18.18Bombay Open 2013: 17.23CCC Winter Open 2014: 14.98MPEI Open 2014: 13.56CCC End of Summer 2015: 11.84Moscow South-West Open 2015: 10.65MPEI Open 2015: 12.06CCC Spring Open 2016: 11.66CCC Summer Open 2016: 13.07MPEI Open 2016: 12.11Cuberussia in MSK 2017: 11.32Return to Toronto 2019: 10.8110.6518.1823 Nov 20132 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.