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Varun Sivashankar

3×3 · top 35.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014SIVA02

Varun Sivashankar has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.55, set at SCMU Juhu Open 2015, puts him in the top 35.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,960th in India. Across 5 competitions since May 2014, he has put 66 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.98 in May 2014 to 18.55, a 29% improvement. Varun has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 35.8% of 284,439 all-time
18.55
signature single · SCMU Juhu Open 2015
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×318.5521.90
top 35.8%4,960 / 20,018
2×24.818.20
top 36.9%3,395 / 12,146
Pyraminx9.3714.33
top 48.0%3,172 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed33.6251.16
top 54.6%2,136 / 4,516
5×52:45.05
top 72.7%981 / 1,525
4×42:00.71
early days — 1 solve3,019 / 4,186
6×66:21.58
early days — 1 solve478 / 531

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 Summer Open 2014: 25.98SCMU Juhu Open 2015: 18.55SCMU Open 2016: 19.00SCMU 2017: 20.25A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 19.4318.5525.983 May 20148 May 2022

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.55 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.