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Aarav Batra

3×3 · top 0.82% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BATR02

Aarav Batra has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.46, set at Virginia Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.82% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 521st in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since October 2022, he has put 806 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.64 in October 2022 to 6.46, a 45% improvement. Aarav has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.82% of 284,439 all-time
6.46
signature single · Virginia Championship 2025
806
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.467.80
top 0.82%521 / 59,724
2×21.612.47
top 2.6%1,033 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed18.1022.50
top 15.3%1,982 / 15,683
4×451.3059.20
top 26.3%4,053 / 19,072

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Think In Fink Fall 2022: 11.64Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 13.87Pretzel Mania 2023: 9.64Richmond Spring 2023: 9.14Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 9.36TJHSST Spring 2023: 9.11CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.55Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.04Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 8.71River Hill Fall 2023: 9.02Virginia Championship 2023: 7.36MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 8.79NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 8.81Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 9.25Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 7.56River Hill Spring 2024: 8.59Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 8.43Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 7.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.33Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.12Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 7.29UMBC Fall 2024: 8.16River Hill Fall 2024: 7.70PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 6.68New-Cumberland County 2025: 7.17Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 6.76TJHSST Spring 2025: 8.35Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.39More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 7.86Virginia Championship 2025: 6.46CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 7.83Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 8.19UMBC Fall 2025: 7.55River Hill Fall 2025: 7.74UMBC Winter 2026: 8.40Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 8.11Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.46Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 6.726.4613.871 Oct 202214 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

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 DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

  • Stone Payne — met in 123 rounds, finished ahead 61 times
  • Hassan Khanani — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Leland Pak — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 94 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.