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Salil Patel
4×4 · top 3.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015PATE01
Salil Patel has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 30.77, set at Beckman Gets Big 2023, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 532nd in the United States. Until August 2011, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since January 2015, he has put 274 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.16 in January 2015 to 9.31, a 39% improvement. Salil has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4×4 | 30.77 | 37.71 | top 3.3% | 532 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 | 9.31 | 10.93 | top 5.6% | 3,129 / 59,724 | |
| 5×5 | 1:06.85 | 1:15.77 | top 9.6% | 749 / 9,401 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.82 | 25.20 | top 14.6% | 1,900 / 15,683 | |
| 2×2 | 4.88 | 6.18 | top 37.8% | 15,127 / 40,951 | |
| 6×6 | 3:11.88 | 3:27.52 | top 46.7% | 1,744 / 4,196 |
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, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Dec 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.31 at Beckman Gets Big 2023.
- 5 Aug 2023Four personal bests in one day at UCSD Summer 2023.
- 1 Feb 2015First sub-15 3×3: 13.66 at St. Francis Winter Open 2015.
- 1 Feb 2015Three personal bests in one day at St. Francis Winter Open 2015.
- 17 Jan 2015First competition: Nub Open 2015. A 15.16 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCSD Weeknights III 2025 · 23 Jan 2025
- Orange County Newcomers 2024 · 3 Mar 2024
- UCSD Winter 2023 · 16 Dec 2023
- Beckman Gets Big 2023 · 10 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023 · 3 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- UCSD Extravaganza 2023 · 7 Oct 2023
- UCSD Summer 2023 · 5 Aug 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Circle City Turbocharged 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cozy Cubing Poway 2023 · 29 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- WCC Western Championship 2022 · 7 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- St. Francis Winter Open 2015 · 1 Feb 2015 — 3 personal bests set
- Nub Open 2015 · 17 Jan 2015
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 51 rounds, never finished ahead
- Danny Wang — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Kyeongmin Choi (최경민) — met in 43 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.