Competitions · India

Pragyan Cube Open 2014

Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu · 8 March 2014 · 11 events · 63 competitors · 59 personal bests

Bhargav Narasimhan won six of the eleven events (4×4, 3×3 blindfolded, 3×3 Fewest Moves) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Swaminathan Chandrasekaran by 0.25 seconds. 63 competitors produced 59 personal bests, 21 of which still stand today, and 33 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Moanish C. S. Barathiar took a 3×3 single of 1:34.43 down to 24.60, 74 percent better in one day.

Six wins

Bhargav Narasimhan — 4×4, 3×3 blindfolded, 3×3 Fewest Moves, 3×3 one-handed, Megaminx, 3×3 Multi-Blind

0.25s

closest final — 3×3, Swaminathan Chandrasekaran over Bhargav Narasimhan

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Swaminathan Chandrasekaran	11.50	13.33
2×2	Swaminathan Chandrasekaran	3.43	5.16
4×4	Bhargav Narasimhan	46.13	51.66
5×5	Sukesh Subaharan	1:22.35	1:34.85
3×3 blindfolded	Bhargav Narasimhan	1:42.66	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Bhargav Narasimhan	33 moves	—
3×3 one-handed	Bhargav Narasimhan	15.24	16.44
Megaminx	Bhargav Narasimhan	1:02.85	1:10.49
Pyraminx	Swaminathan Chandrasekaran	4.81	5.40
Square-1	Sukesh Subaharan	39.51	42.70
3×3 Multi-Blind	Bhargav Narasimhan	5 of 6 cubes · 28:33	—

The PB harvest

59 set · 21 still standing

Raghuram Venkatesan — Pyraminx single 6.94: into the top 27.4% of the event's history.
Niranjan Santhanakrishnan — 3×3 single 16.16: into the top 28.3% of the event's history.
Pradheep Thangam — 3×3 one-handed single 28.33: into the top 42.7% of the event's history.
Deepak Ranjan — 2×2 single 5.98: into the top 50.7% of the event's history.
Pradheep Thangam — 2×2 single 6.90: into the top 59.6% of the event's history.
Niranjan Santhanakrishnan — 2×2 single 7.29: into the top 62.7% of the event's history.
Sambhu Rajendran — 3×3 single 31.46: into the top 65.0% of the event's history.
Sudarshan Sampathkumar — 5×5 single 2:39.13: into the top 70.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

33 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 9,275 people who made their debut in 2014. 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

63 competitors · 237 results · 11 events.

Everyone who competed

63 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.