Competitions · India
Pragyan Cube Open 2019
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu · 17 March 2019 · 5 events · 43 competitors · 34 personal bests
Bhargav Narasimhan won two of the five events (3×3, 3×3 one-handed) and the closest final was the 3×3 one-handed, won by Bhargav Narasimhan by 0.74 seconds. 43 competitors produced 34 personal bests, 15 of which still stand today, and seven people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Shakthi Sundar took a Square-1 single of 3:38.20 down to 1:06.01, 70 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Bhargav Narasimhan | 8.16 | 8.99 |
| 4×4 | Saravanan Gowthaman | 34.85 | 39.74 |
| 3×3 one-handed | Bhargav Narasimhan | 10.25 | 12.76 |
| Clock | Hemvarshan Muthukumar | 8.62 | 10.88 |
| Square-1 | Kunaal Parekh | 12.42 | 18.83 |
The PB harvest
34 set · 15 still standing- Nitheesh Kumar Elangovan — 3×3 one-handed single 12.48: into the top 3.6% of the event's history.
- Naganesan Thirunavukarasu — 3×3 single 9.82: into the top 7.0% of the event's history.
- Balachander Packirisamy — 3×3 single 9.98: into the top 7.4% of the event's history.
- Harihanth Kumar — 3×3 single 13.22: into the top 18.2% of the event's history.
- Shakthi Sundar — 3×3 single 14.40: into the top 22.4% of the event's history.
- Nithin Steven — 3×3 single 15.56: into the top 26.3% of the event's history.
- Saravanan Gowthaman — Square-1 single 21.14: into the top 30.5% of the event's history.
- Deveshwar Sundar — 3×3 single 22.52: into the top 46.8% of the event's history.
First-timers
Seven 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
43 competitors · 173 results · 5 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. Bhargav Narasimhan won it with a 8.99 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
- 1
B2 D U2 F2 U F2 L2 F2 D2 F' D2 R2 D2 B2 R' D2 U2 F U' L - 2
B2 D L2 U B2 U' B2 D2 F2 U B2 F' D2 R' F2 L B U R' U - 3
B2 D2 B2 L' D2 L2 R B' U B' U2 B' R F2 L' B2 R2 B - 4
F U2 R2 F2 U2 B' R2 F' L2 F' R U R2 B2 R' F' R' B' L D - 5
R' U2 R F2 R B2 U2 R' D2 R D R U2 L2 B' R2 D U2 R' F'
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
43 competitors- Akshay Kumar
- Arun R C
- Arvind Tatiparti
- Balachander Packirisamy
- Balaji Arulkumaran
- Bhargav Narasimhan
- Carol Infant
- Chanduru Selvaraju
- Daniel James
- Deveshwar Sundar
- Dharaneeshwar Shrisai Kumaraguru
- Harihanth Kumar
- Hariharan Sachidanandam
- Hemvarshan Muthukumar
- Imruthun Meenakshisundaram
- Kesavan Venkadakrishnan
- Keshav Sundararaman
- Kunaal Parekh
- Maneesh Kumar
- Murugesan Sundaram
- Naga Lingam
- Naganesan Thirunavukarasu
- Naveen Kumar
- Nitheesh Kumar Elangovan
- Nithin Steven
- Nithish Raju
- Pranav Prabhu
- Rahul Venkatesan
- Rakesh M. Vaideeswaran
- Roobenbell Stephenraj
- Sanjai Chandrasekaren
- Santhosh Sabarinathan
- Saravanan Gowthaman
- Shakthi Sundar
- Shashank Sistla
- Sivakanagapriyan Venkatachalam
- Sripad Sarma Katrapati
- Sujai Shakthivel
- Vani Muthukrishnan
- Vijay Kishore
- Vikram Gopinath
- Vishal Balasubramanian
- Yuarajan Senthilkumar
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.