Competitions · India

VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2017

Vellore, Tamil Nadu · 22 September 2017 · 16 events · 69 competitors · 80 personal bests

Anish Rajesh won six of the 16 events (2×2, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Vijay Kishore by 0.59 seconds. 69 competitors produced 80 personal bests, 23 of which still stand today, and 25 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Anish Rajesh set the 5×5 single national record: 53.70.

Six wins

Anish Rajesh — 2×2, 4×4, 5×5, 7×7, 3×3 one-handed, Skewb

0.59s

closest final — 3×3, Vijay Kishore over Anish Rajesh

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Vijay Kishore	8.06	9.82
2×2	Anish Rajesh	1.44	2.36
4×4	Anish Rajesh	32.62	34.50
5×5	Anish Rajesh	53.94	57.61
7×7	Anish Rajesh	2:38.28	2:46.69
3×3 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	33.86	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Subash Karnan	38 moves	40.67
3×3 one-handed	Anish Rajesh	13.68	16.44
Clock	Saravanan Gowthaman	8.02	9.18
Megaminx	Pranav Raaghav	1:03.23	1:13.31
Pyraminx	Subash Karnan	2.80	4.01
Skewb	Anish Rajesh	4.70	5.44
Square-1	Daniel James	16.79	22.11
4×4 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	2:32.61	—
5×5 blindfolded	Hari Anirudh	—	—
3×3 with feet	Adithyaa Anand	36.14	40.54

The PB harvest

80 set · 23 still standing

Subash Karnan — Pyraminx single 2.11: into the top 1.3% of the event's history.
Anish Rajesh — Pyraminx single 3.32: into the top 4.8% of the event's history.
Hari Anirudh — 4×4 blindfolded single 2:32.61: into the top 5.5% of the event's history.
Dilli Babu — Pyraminx single 3.75: into the top 6.5% of the event's history.
Daniel James — 3×3 blindfolded single 1:04.90: into the top 14.6% of the event's history.
Sri Vignesh — Pyraminx single 5.93: into the top 19.5% of the event's history.
Aadithya Murthy — 3×3 single 14.69: into the top 23.4% of the event's history.
Abhishek Saxena — 3×3 single 15.44: into the top 25.9% of the event's history.

First-timers

25 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

3 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

69 competitors · 405 results · 16 events.

Everyone who competed

69 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.