People · United States
Vihan Penmatsa
3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022PENM02
Vihan Penmatsa has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.69, set at Bothell Summer 2023, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,324th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2022, he has put 295 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.56 in April 2022 to 8.69, a 40% improvement. Vihan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 8.69 | 10.07 | top 4.2% | 2,324 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.43 | 5.23 | top 8.2% | 3,242 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.19 | 8.33 | top 14.4% | 3,762 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 1:16.75 | 1:43.16 | top 53.2% | 9,039 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 36.36 | 46.11 | top 59.7% | 8,376 / 15,683 |
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
- 13 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at Lakewood Spring 2023.
- 12 Mar 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.31 at Central Washington Evens 2023.
- 12 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at Oregon Championship 2022.
- 6 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at SnoCo Favorites 2022.
- 23 Apr 2022First competition: Central Washington Spring 2022. A 17.54 3×3 single to start from.
- 23 Apr 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.56 at Central Washington Spring 2022.
Competitions
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024
- Bellingham Spring 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023 · 10 Nov 2023
- Maltby Mega Special 2023 · 9 Jul 2023
- Bothell Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Mill Creek 2023 · 10 Jun 2023
- Lakewood Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Washington Championship 2023 · 14 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Central Washington Evens 2023 · 12 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022 · 11 Nov 2022
- SnoCo NxN 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon Championship 2022 · 12 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- SnoCo Favorites 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Odd Seattle Summer 2022 · 28 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Rose City 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Central Washington Spring 2022 · 23 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Ruichen Li — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Soham Penmatsa — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 49 times · head to head
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 50 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
Targets move as he improves.