People · United States
Tharan Sivakumar
3×3 · top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022SIVA02
Tharan Sivakumar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.12, set at Bellingham Spring 2024, puts him in the top 7.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,300th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since May 2022, he has put 249 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.63 in May 2022 to 10.12, a 53% improvement. Tharan has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.12 | 11.48 | top 7.8% | 4,300 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.83 | 11.17 | top 12.1% | 3,157 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.35 | 3.90 | top 18.4% | 7,199 / 40,951 | |
| Skewb | 7.81 | 13.84 | top 39.8% | 6,868 / 18,907 | |
| 4×4 | 1:14.58 | 1:22.37 | top 51.2% | 8,649 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 32.45 | 39.39 | top 52.2% | 7,204 / 15,683 | |
| Square-1 | 56.03 | — | early days — 3 solves | 5,418 / 6,743 |
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
- 12 Nov 2022First sub-20 3×3: 17.70 at SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022.
- 12 Nov 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.45 at SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022.
- 15 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at New Kent On The Block 2022.
- 8 May 2022First competition: Rose City First-Timers A 2022. A 21.63 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Olympia Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024
- Bellingham Spring 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- UW or U Don't 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Odd Olympia 2023 · 28 Oct 2023
- Kent Summer 2023 · 9 Sep 2023
- SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Mill Creek 2023 · 10 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Welcome to Olympia 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Central Washington Evens 2023 · 12 Mar 2023
- Lynnwood Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022 · 12 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- New Kent On The Block 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Odd Seattle Summer 2022 · 28 May 2022
- Rose City First-Timers A 2022 · 8 May 2022
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.
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 46 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ethan Ekstrom — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Ash Black — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
Targets move as he improves.