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Alaik Bhatia vs Nikhil Soares

Two careers, 550 shared rounds, one running count. Everything below comes from the official results the two of them posted in the same rounds of the same competitions.

Alaik Bhatia (India) and Nikhil Soares (India) have met in 550 rounds across 38 competitions since 2015. Counting every round where both finished with a result, Nikhil Soares leads Alaik Bhatia: 273 finishes in front to 272 and 5 ties.

On personal bests the split is just as plain: across 16 shared events, Nikhil Soares holds the faster single in 13, Alaik Bhatia in 3.

Personal bests, side by side

faster single in bold
EventAlaik Bhatia singleaverageNikhil Soares singleaverage
3×36.388.265.366.63
2×21.773.200.661.83
4×429.6434.5626.6730.36
5×51:03.451:06.5753.9359.19
6×62:27.102:35.711:45.091:53.36
7×73:55.684:10.682:56.902:57.52
3×3 blindfolded42.5548.0159.36
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves31.0025 moves27.67
3×3 one-handed16.5320.039.5813.57
Clock11.8413.206.928.75
Megaminx1:23.281:40.6527.1629.50
Pyraminx3.436.301.652.97
Skewb3.416.021.703.67
Square-17.5610.569.2811.84
4×4 blindfolded6:09.428:00.35
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 17:4110 of 10 cubes · 56:42

Year by year

every meeting, 550 rounds in all
20152020busiest year: 135 meetings2015: 632016: 1172017: 992018: 1352019: 1052020: 31

Recent meetings

newest first · averages where the round ranked on one, singles otherwise
YearCompetitionEventRoundAlaik BhatiaNikhil Soaresahead
2020Saraswati Open 20202×2Final4.033.46Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 20202×2First round4.582.76Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 20203×3First round8.479.86Alaik Bhatia
2020Saraswati Open 20203×3Final8.988.92Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 20203×3 one-handedFinal24.0914.53Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 20203×3 one-handedFirst round20.0317.89Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 2020MegaminxFinal1:48.5044.75Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 2020PyraminxFirst round8.013.84Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 2020PyraminxFinal6.303.01Nikhil Soares
2020Saraswati Open 2020SkewbFinal6.945.71Nikhil Soares
2020Oculus Cube Open 20202×2First round4.642.60Nikhil Soares
2020Oculus Cube Open 20202×2Final3.582.76Nikhil Soares
2020Oculus Cube Open 20202×2Second round4.502.95Nikhil Soares
2020Oculus Cube Open 20203×3Final9.608.31Nikhil Soares

Full careers: Alaik Bhatia · Nikhil Soares. A meeting is a round of one event at one competition where both finished with a counted result. Who finished ahead follows official placing in the round: rounds played to an average are won on the average, best-of rounds on the single.