Competitions · India
Takshashila Cube Open 2018
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu · 3 March 2018 · 6 events · 64 competitors · 65 personal bests
Vijay Kishore won the 3×3 with a 8.94 and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Emmanuel Rajapandian by 0.03 seconds. 64 competitors produced 65 personal bests, 23 of which still stand today, and 18 people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Nithilan Selvakumaran took a 2×2 single of 28.80 down to 11.62, 60 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Vijay Kishore | 8.15 | 8.94 |
| 2×2 | Arjun Paranthaman | 3.52 | 3.87 |
| 4×4 | Joshua Koilpillai | 38.24 | 43.31 |
| 3×3 blindfolded | Hari Anirudh | 35.60 | — |
| 3×3 one-handed | Rajesh Shankar | 14.58 | 18.07 |
| Pyraminx | Emmanuel Rajapandian | 1.97 | 3.52 |
The PB harvest
65 set · 23 still standing- Rajesh Shankar — 3×3 one-handed single 14.58: into the top 7.2% of the event's history.
- Joshua Koilpillai — 3×3 single 10.36: into the top 8.5% of the event's history.
- Vivek Narayanan Chembampadath Viswanathan — 3×3 single 10.36: into the top 8.5% of the event's history.
- Shrikrishna Saravanan — 3×3 one-handed single 20.82: into the top 22.8% of the event's history.
- Vishwajith Loguvel Karthigeyan — 2×2 single 3.72: into the top 23.0% of the event's history.
- Vikram Mada — 3×3 blindfolded single 1:33.14: into the top 24.2% of the event's history.
- Rahul Dinesh — 3×3 single 15.91: into the top 27.5% of the event's history.
- Aditya Ravindran — Pyraminx single 7.11: into the top 28.7% of the event's history.
First-timers
18 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 26,076 people who made their debut in 2018. 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
64 competitors · 222 results · 6 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 8.94 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
- 1
B2 U2 B2 R2 U F2 U F2 R2 U2 R' D' B F' U' B2 U L' D' U2 - 2
D2 B2 L2 R2 B' R2 B' F' R B' U2 L F2 D2 F' D F' R' F - 3
B2 D F B R' L2 F L' D B2 D B2 U2 F2 R2 B L2 F' U2 - 4
U R2 D L2 B2 D' U' L2 B2 L2 U2 B D' B' D F' D R U2 F - 5
R2 D B U L B' D' B' R L2 F' D B2 R2 U L2 D2 F2 L2
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
64 competitors- Achyuta Ganesh
- Adithya Viswanathan
- Aditya Ravindran
- Akhil Venkatesh
- Allen Ebinezer
- Anirudh Sureshram
- Aravind Ravi
- Arjun Paranthaman
- Arun Seshadhri
- Athul Gokuldas
- Bala Manimaran
- Balakarthik Balachandran
- Chinnadurai Dhanasekar
- Darun Jayavel
- Dilip Seenivasan
- Emmanuel Rajapandian
- Ganapathy Sathish
- Gurram Kalyan
- Hari Anirudh
- Joshua Koilpillai
- Kalaiarasan Sankar
- Kapilesh Ganesh
- Karla Matus Bravo
- Kaushik Gururaj
- Kaushik Srinivasan
- Kaushik Srivatsan
- Koushik Santhosh
- Lakshmanan Pandiyarajan
- Logaprasad Dhamodaran
- Madhava Rajan
- Muthu Kannan
- Nithilan Selvakumaran
- Nitin Kumar (நிதின் குமார்)
- Nitin Nathan
- Pamulapati Sai Teja
- PK Arumugam
- Pranaov Srikanth
- Pranav Prabhu
- Prithvi Narayan Binu
- Raghuraman Rajagopalan
- Rahul Dinesh
- Rajesh Shankar
- Ramanan Mathialagan
- Rishon Jonathan
- Roshan Logidasan
- Sai Mrudhun (சாய் மிருதுன்)
- Senthur Nidhi
- Shivasundar Senthil Kumar
- Shobhan Karthish
- Shrikrishna Saravanan
- Shyaam Siddarth
- Sparsh Dongre
- Sri Hari Sai Parachuri
- Sriram Ganapathy
- Sriram Mathialagan
- Tanish Mahesh Dongre
- Tharun Raghav
- Vijai Doss
- Vijay Kishore
- Vikram Mada
- Vishal Balaji
- Vishal Mohanraju
- Vishwajith Loguvel Karthigeyan
- Vivek Narayanan Chembampadath Viswanathan
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.