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Shankar Pradeep Nair

2×2 · top 11.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022NAIR04

Shankar Pradeep Nair has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.74, set at La La Land 2024, puts him in the top 11.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 943rd in India. Across 9 competitions since August 2022, he has put 176 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.91 in August 2022 to 13.06, a 50% improvement. Shankar has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 11.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.74
signature single · La La Land 2024
176
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×22.745.82
top 11.4%943 / 12,146
3×313.0615.29
top 17.6%2,199 / 20,018
Pyraminx9.9618.24
top 52.7%3,524 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed33.5438.10
top 54.5%2,127 / 4,516
Skewb12.9023.16
top 70.2%2,089 / 3,524
4×41:47.90
top 75.5%2,720 / 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

Circle City Summer 2022: 25.91Circle City Supercharged 2022: 17.98A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 20.59Give Back RPV 2023: 17.64Corona Summer 2023: 14.06Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023: 14.53Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 14.51La La Land 2024: 13.50Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 13.0613.0625.916 Aug 202226 Oct 2024

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.