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Saravanan Gowthaman

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015GOWT01

Saravanan Gowthaman has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.15, set at Raipur Winter Cube Challenge 2018, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 132nd in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since January 2015, he has put 1,538 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.21 in January 2015 to 7.15, a 75% improvement. Saravanan has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.15
signature single · Raipur Winter Cube Challenge 2018
1,538
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×37.1510.95
top 1.5%132 / 20,018
4×430.1534.06
top 2.9%73 / 4,186
Pyraminx2.794.79
top 3.0%154 / 8,934
Clock4.485.85
top 3.3%24 / 1,092
5×557.501:04.83
top 4.3%43 / 1,525
3×3 one-handed13.5618.95
top 5.3%165 / 4,516
2×22.093.13
top 5.4%407 / 12,146
Skewb3.084.57
top 5.4%128 / 3,524
6×62:11.392:41.54
top 16.0%72 / 531
Megaminx1:33.151:45.15
top 30.2%314 / 1,443
Square-121.1431.56
top 30.5%201 / 805
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves45.00
top 44.7%203 / 600
7×75:16.405:48.32
top 55.9%191 / 360

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

Shaastra Cube Open 2015: 28.21REC Cube Challenge 2015: 17.28VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2016: 14.67Tathva Cube Open 2016: 13.05Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 12.49Carte Blanche Kube Open 2017: 13.79Anokha Cubing Royale 2017: 12.79Drishti Cube Open 2017: 11.21SRM Cube Open 2017: 13.42Cubing Kerala Alappey Open 2017: 13.23SSN Cube Open 2017: 12.90Bit Cube Open 2017: 13.35VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2017: 12.76Grand Cube Open 2017: 11.88Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 11.65Drishti Cube Open 2018: 13.51Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 13.54Anokha Cubing Royale 2018: 11.46SRM Cube Open 2018: 9.39Indian Nationals 2018: 12.22Virudhunagar KCET Cube Open 2018: 9.34IIITDM Cube Open 2018: 11.51Cubing Kerala Aleppey Open 2018: 11.49Phoenix C3 Open 2018: 8.65Raipur Winter Cube Challenge 2018: 7.15VDCA Winter Open 2019: 8.98Daksh Cube Open 2019: 10.68Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 8.51Pragyan Cube Open 2019: 11.28Samyak Cube Open 2019: 11.04VSVN Cube Open 2019: 9.59C3 Cup Finale 2019: 10.327.1528.213 Jan 201528 Dec 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.