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Yash Bansal

2×2 · top 3.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016BANS03

Yash Bansal has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.83, set at Berkeley Summer 2017, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,475th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since September 2016, he has put 361 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.89 in September 2016 to 9.00, a 64% improvement. Yash has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.83
signature single · Berkeley Summer 2017
361
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.833.57
top 3.7%1,475 / 40,951
3×39.009.96
top 4.9%2,722 / 59,724
Skewb3.528.04
top 7.9%1,222 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.126.87
top 13.9%3,642 / 28,708
4×444.1347.66
top 17.2%2,617 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.5525.46
top 27.5%3,549 / 15,683
5×51:50.362:02.02
top 42.8%3,495 / 9,401
Clock21.4832.77
top 68.7%5,930 / 8,927

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

Berkeley Summer 2016: 24.89Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 21.55Berkeley Spring 2017: 16.63San Ramon 2017: 15.25Berkeley Summer 2017: 14.31San Ramon Cubed 2017: 13.60SacCubing III 2018: 12.95Bay Area Speedcubin' 11 2018: 12.78Berkeley Spring 2018: 10.10SacCubing IV 2018: 10.41CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 11.60West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 9.95Berkeley Summer 2018: 9.43Berkeley Spring 2019: 10.45Berkeley Summer 2019: 9.00Bay Area Speedcubin' 20 2019: 9.459.0024.8917 Sep 201612 Oct 2019

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.