Competitions · India

Grand Cube Open 2017

Chennai, Tamil Nadu · 26 November 2017 · 8 events · 126 competitors · 120 personal bests

Saravanan Gowthaman won two of the eight events (2×2, 4×4) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Saravanan Gowthaman by 0.47 seconds. 126 competitors produced 120 personal bests, 26 of which still stand today, and 44 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Vijay Ganapathy took a 3×3 single of 52.98 down to 22.68, 57 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Saravanan Gowthaman — 2×2, 4×4

0.47s

closest final — 2×2, Saravanan Gowthaman over Aditya Hari

120

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Santosh Naranapatty	6.76	9.74
2×2	Saravanan Gowthaman	2.86	3.13
4×4	Saravanan Gowthaman	35.28	40.39
3×3 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	28.24	34.53
3×3 one-handed	Sripad Sarma Katrapati	11.18	13.71
Pyraminx	Joshua Koilpillai	2.41	3.38
Skewb	Adhruth Ganesh	4.29	4.85
4×4 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	3:33.85	—

The PB harvest

120 set · 26 still standing

Aadithya Murthy — 3×3 one-handed single 17.85: into the top 14.7% of the event's history.
Gokul Krishna Balaji — Pyraminx single 5.59: into the top 17.0% of the event's history.
Sachin Arvind — Skewb single 5.44: into the top 21.5% of the event's history.
Anirudh Kathera — 2×2 single 3.64: into the top 21.9% of the event's history.
Aditya Ravindran — Skewb single 5.62: into the top 22.9% of the event's history.
Mohamed Faiz — 3×3 single 14.56: into the top 22.9% of the event's history.
Thabares Nazeer Basha — Skewb single 5.83: into the top 24.4% of the event's history.
Raghuraman Rajagopalan — 3×3 single 16.56: into the top 29.6% of the event's history.

First-timers

44 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 23,482 people who made their debut in 2017. 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

126 competitors · 443 results · 8 events.

Everyone who competed

126 competitors

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.