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Varun Karandikar

3×3 · top 64.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2010 · 2010KARA01

Varun Karandikar has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 31.16, set at Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011, puts him in the top 64.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,302nd in India. Across 3 competitions since February 2010, he has put 69 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Varun has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 64.5% of 284,439 all-time
31.16
signature single · Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011
69
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×331.1639.49
top 64.5%10,302 / 20,018
2×212.0816.89
top 84.6%9,186 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed1:09.301:27.31
top 88.7%3,782 / 4,516
Square-11:14.052:02.65
top 90.6%670 / 805
Pyraminx19.6931.68
top 92.5%7,549 / 8,934
4×42:52.554:15.61
top 95.6%3,776 / 4,186
3×3 blindfolded9:30.46
early days — 1 solve592 / 598

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

Mumbai Open 2010: 33.21Mumbai Rubik's Cube Challenge 2010: 32.56Mumbai Open Rubik's Cube 2011: 31.1631.1633.216 Feb 20105 Feb 2011

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.