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Siva Shanmukh Vetcha

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 30.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since October 2008 · 2008SHAN01

Siva Shanmukh Vetcha has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 35 moves, set at Chennai Mathematical Institute Open 2012, puts him in the top 30.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 124th in India. Across 25 competitions since October 2008, he has put 307 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.21 in October 2008 to 20.06, a 36% improvement. Siva has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 30.0% of 12,294 all-time
35 moves
signature single · Chennai Mathematical Institute Open 2012
307
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves
top 30.0%124 / 600
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 41:01
top 37.6%51 / 168
3×320.0625.99
top 40.1%5,669 / 20,018
3×3 blindfolded2:35.184:18.87
top 45.0%217 / 598
Pyraminx9.5117.38
top 49.1%3,248 / 8,934
2×26.478.99
top 55.7%5,484 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed41.401:02.32
top 67.3%2,711 / 4,516
4×41:46.692:05.36
top 74.8%2,696 / 4,186
4×4 blindfolded14:52.00
top 76.6%52 / 69
Skewb21.9533.84
top 92.2%2,950 / 3,524
5×5 blindfolded37:20.00
early days — 1 solve26 / 31
5×54:11.554:41.27
top 93.1%1,326 / 1,525
Clock41.7759.72
top 94.1%976 / 1,092
Megaminx4:33.655:33.81
top 94.3%1,266 / 1,443
Square-11:39.842:25.64
top 96.8%750 / 805
6×69:10.55
early days — 2 solves526 / 531
7×716:04.00
early days — 1 solve360 / 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 Open 2008: 31.21Shaastra Open 2009: 30.41Bangalore Rubik's Cube Challenge 2011: 28.114th Shaastra Cube Open 2011: 29.00Pragyan Cube Open 2012: 20.06Chennai Mathematical Institute Open 2012: 25.28Shaastra Cube Open 2013: 26.73Speed Cubing Mumbai Unlimited 2013: 21.66Indian Cube Challenge 2013: 22.89Shaastra Cube Open 2014: 24.56SpringSpree RubiMania 2014: 26.43P3 Grand Open 2014: 26.2420.0631.214 Oct 200828 Jun 2014

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.