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Aarav Gaddam

3×3 · top 0.26% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2021 · 2021GADD01

Aarav Gaddam has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.54, set at DFW Cubing Winter 2026, puts him in the top 0.26% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 179th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since October 2021, he has put 1,361 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.53 in October 2021 to 5.54, a 47% improvement. Aarav has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.26% of 284,439 all-time
5.54
signature single · DFW Cubing Winter 2026
1,361
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.548.42
top 0.26%179 / 59,724
2×21.542.59
top 2.3%920 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.075.24
top 3.9%1,032 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed16.2427.56
top 10.8%1,428 / 15,683
4×440.3942.52
top 12.6%1,849 / 19,072
Skewb4.349.01
top 13.3%2,063 / 18,907
5×51:34.011:46.29
top 30.7%2,427 / 9,401

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

Oklahoma Fall AM 2021: 10.53CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 11.31Cube More in Ardmore 2022: 9.35DFW Cubing Fall 2022: 10.04Houston Fall 2022: 10.24DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 11.61Solving in Shreveport 2023: 9.95Cedar Park Winter 2023: 8.20DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 9.56MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 9.23CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 7.46DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 9.13Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 8.54Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 8.71Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 8.47Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 9.55Texas Championship 2023: 8.82DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 8.23DFW Winter Variation 2024: 8.59DFW Minicomp A 2024: 8.80DFW Eclipse Cubing 2024: 8.48DFW Cubing Spring 2024: 7.46DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 7.45Richardson Cubing Afternoon 2024: 8.84CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 7.80DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 7.04Cube a Ton in Arlington 2024: 8.19Cube Against Cancer DFW 2025: 7.23DFW Cubing Spring 2025: 7.77DFW Qualifier 2025: 7.15DFW Cubing Summer 2025: 7.25DFW Back to School 2025: 8.83Texas Championship 2025: 7.81DFW Cubing Winter 2026: 5.54DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 7.365.5411.619 Oct 202128 Mar 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.