Competitions · India
Daksh Cube Open 2019
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu · 23 February 2019 · 10 events · 35 competitors · 34 personal bests
Saravanan Gowthaman won four of the ten events (2×2, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Saravanan Gowthaman by 0.10 seconds. 35 competitors produced 34 personal bests, 16 of which still stand today, and twelve people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Balaji Arulkumaran took a 2×2 single of 5.39 down to 2.76, 49 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Vijay Kishore | 8.17 | 9.21 |
| 2×2 | Saravanan Gowthaman | 2.77 | 3.52 |
| 4×4 | Saravanan Gowthaman | 32.31 | 34.12 |
| 5×5 | Saravanan Gowthaman | 1:00.82 | 1:10.64 |
| 3×3 blindfolded | Anirudh Sureshram | 1:17.79 | — |
| 3×3 one-handed | Kunaal Parekh | 13.39 | 14.03 |
| Megaminx | Rahul Venkatesan | 1:08.29 | 1:17.48 |
| Pyraminx | Saravanan Gowthaman | 3.62 | 4.84 |
| Skewb | Hariharan Sachidanandam | 2.40 | 4.10 |
| 3×3 with feet | Adithyaa Anand | 30.00 | 33.50 |
The PB harvest
34 set · 16 still standing- Pritesh Lunkad — 3×3 single 10.15: into the top 7.9% of the event's history.
- Nithish Raju — 2×2 single 2.58: into the top 9.7% of the event's history.
- Balaji Arulkumaran — 2×2 single 2.76: into the top 11.6% of the event's history.
- Adithyaa Anand — 4×4 single 46.04: into the top 19.6% of the event's history.
- Vani Muthukrishnan — 2×2 single 3.85: into the top 24.6% of the event's history.
- Hariharan Sachidanandam — 3×3 with feet single 1:17.63: into the top 25.5% of the event's history.
- Saravanan Gowthaman — Megaminx single 1:33.15: into the top 30.2% of the event's history.
- Lakshana Satish Kumar — Pyraminx single 7.89: into the top 35.3% of the event's history.
First-timers
Twelve people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 27,871 people who made their debut in 2019. Start here explains what a first competition is like.
Records watch
No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.
The field
35 competitors · 212 results · 10 events.
Solve this final yourself
how this works →The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Vijay Kishore won it with a 9.21 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
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R2 B R' L2 U F2 U2 F2 R' F L2 U2 F2 U2 R D2 R - 2
D' R2 U2 R' L2 B' U' F U2 F2 R' U2 D2 R2 D2 F2 B' U2 B' - 3
U2 B' D2 R2 D2 B' F2 U2 B' D2 L' F D U R' B L R2 F2 R' - 4
R D2 B' R2 U R' L' U R D2 B D2 L F2 U2 R D2 L F2 - 5
L' D2 U2 F2 L2 D2 L2 R2 B' U' F' R2 F R' D2 B R2 D L'
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
35 competitors- Adithyaa Anand
- Ajay Jayakumar
- Ajjai Mannan
- Akshay Kumar
- Anirudh Sureshram
- Atharva R. Bhat
- Balaji Arulkumaran
- Daniel James
- Dharshana Satish Kumar
- Guru Bharath
- Hari Pranav
- Harihanth Kumar
- Hariharan Sachidanandam
- Harshavardana Raghupathy
- Ineyan Murugananthan
- Jeyamurugesh Jeyaraj
- Kunaal Parekh
- Lakshana Satish Kumar
- Maneesh Kumar
- Manoj Kumar Chilaka
- Meghana Saravanan
- Nirmal Raj Kumar
- Nithish Raju
- Pankaj Dheeraj Chilaka
- Pritesh Lunkad
- Rahul Venkatesan
- Ravulapati Sai Sri Satwik
- Sandeep Rajaram
- Santhosh Sabarinathan
- Saravanan Gowthaman
- Sashank Balaji
- Sneha Koodalingam
- Srivathsan Aravamudan
- Vani Muthukrishnan
- Vijay Kishore
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 final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.