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Rutvik Warkar

2×2 · top 7.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015WARK01

Rutvik Warkar has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.34, set at MathSoc Open 2018, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 585th in India. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since October 2015, he has put 228 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.64 in March 2016 to 2.34, a 50% improvement. Rutvik has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 7.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.34
signature single · MathSoc Open 2018
228
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×22.344.51
top 7.4%585 / 12,146
3×310.2015.37
top 8.0%902 / 20,018
Pyraminx6.4613.50
top 23.5%1,427 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed22.7132.86
top 28.0%1,006 / 4,516
4×41:53.082:16.85
top 78.3%2,857 / 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

Indian Nationals 2016: 4.64National Cubing Region Open 2016: 5.05Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2016: 3.583rd Guwahati Open 2017: 4.02National Cubing Region Open 2017: 2.36MathSoc Open 2018: 2.34Indian Nationals 2018: 4.94Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2018: 4.54Indian Nationals 2019: 4.72PB Smashathon Delhi 2019: 4.86Quark Cubix Challenge 2020: 4.302.345.0525 Mar 20162 Feb 2020

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.