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Sreeram Venkatarao

3×3 blindfolded · top 2.8% of 12,178 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008VENK01

Sreeram Venkatarao has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 24.57, set at Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2016, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 55th in the United States. Until June 2013, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since November 2008, he has put 574 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.96 in November 2008 to 9.25, a 68% improvement. Sreeram has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 2.8% of 12,178 all-time
24.57
signature single · Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2016
574
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded24.5726.73
top 2.8%55 / 2,092
3×39.2512.15
top 5.5%3,054 / 59,724
2×22.464.58
top 8.5%3,352 / 40,951
Pyraminx7.3712.03
top 30.9%8,631 / 28,708
4×41:07.971:20.16
top 44.9%7,448 / 19,072
5×54:15.24—
early days — 1 solve8,875 / 9,401

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

Newark Open 2008: 28.96Drexel Fall 2008: 29.02Newark Winter 2009: 26.00Bangalore Rubik's Cube Challenge 2011: 15.57Princeton Fall 2011: 15.40Bridgewater Open 2011: 15.34St. Joseph's College Winter 2012: 14.50Yale Spring 2012: 14.40Princeton Fall 2012: 12.06Levittown Open 2012: 13.61Carnegie Mellon Fall 2012: 11.56Harvard Spring 2013: 13.59River Hill Winter 2013: 14.13MIT Spring 2013: 11.50Princeton Spring 2013: 13.93CCFC Fall 2013: 11.45Harvard Fall 2013: 10.41Yale Fall 2013: 10.97Starlight Open 2013: 12.24Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 13.27River Hill Winter 2014: 10.68Yale Spring 2014: 9.25Cornell Open Spring 2014: 10.83Indiana 2014: 10.40Harvard Fall 2014: 10.64Michigan Mystery 2014: 10.89Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2015: 9.36Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 10.74Doylestown Spring 2015: 11.95Indiana 2015: 10.70Médecins Sans Frontières Open 2015: 11.98Virginia Open Fall 2015: 12.33Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2015: 11.98Dixon Winter 2016: 11.45Mishawaka 3x3 Day 2016: 11.08Mason Cubing Challenge 2016: 10.73Dayton Winter 2017: 10.869.2529.028 Nov 20087 Jan 2017

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.

  • Corey Sakowski — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
  • Dan Selzer — met in 77 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
  • Kian Barry — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 28 times

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 4.57 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.