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Sai Bhargav Kalavai
Pyraminx · top 5.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019KALA03
Sai Bhargav Kalavai has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.37, set at Oregon Championship 2024, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,294th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since August 2019, he has put 115 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 9.48 in August 2019 to 3.37, a 64% improvement. Sai has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.37 | 6.92 | top 5.0% | 1,294 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.69 | 4.03 | top 22.6% | 8,862 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 20.14 | 25.33 | top 40.3% | 22,926 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 9.56 | 11.80 | top 52.2% | 9,391 / 18,907 | |
| Square-1 | 51.08 | — | early days — 2 solves | 5,102 / 6,743 |
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
Best single per competition, Pyraminx. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 29 Feb 2020First sub-30 3×3: 28.79 at Oregon State Leap Day 2020.
- 17 Aug 2019First competition: Gaston Toe Twiddling 2019.
Competitions
- McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Oregon Championship 2024 · 13 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Rose City 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Oregon State Leap Day 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Oregon State Favorites 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Gaston Toe Twiddling 2019 · 17 Aug 2019
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.
- Tripp Peters — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead once
- Benjamin Gottschalk — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Drake Robertson — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
Targets move as he improves.