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Aarav Gandhi

5×5 · top 0.38% of 40,792 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015GAND02

Aarav Gandhi has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 42.63, set at Sundowner Pune 2024, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in India. Until November 2016, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since October 2015, he has put 1,961 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.07 in December 2015 to 6.41, a 68% improvement. Aarav has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.38% of 40,792 all-time
42.63
signature single · Sundowner Pune 2024
1,961
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
5×542.6350.96
top 0.38%8 / 1,525
4×425.1228.60
top 0.73%14 / 4,186
3×36.418.33
top 0.78%70 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed9.8115.41
top 0.92%20 / 4,516
6×61:37.391:45.43
top 3.4%15 / 531
2×22.013.10
top 4.8%357 / 12,146
7×72:36.282:42.92
top 4.8%16 / 360
Pyraminx5.4510.34
top 16.1%950 / 8,934
Megaminx1:34.291:45.20
top 30.9%323 / 1,443
Skewb8.9711.62
top 48.2%1,362 / 3,524

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

Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2015: 20.07SCMU Open 2016: 14.92SCMU ICT Open 2016: 15.03SCMU 2016: 13.49KJSCE Mumbai Open 2016: 13.66Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2016: 14.86Mumbai Monsoon Open 2017: 10.56SCMU 2017: 10.13Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017: 10.03Udaan Rubik's Cube Open 2018: 9.89RGIT Cube Open 2018: 10.55Indian Nationals 2018: 8.56Phoenix Cube Championship 2018: 9.57KJSCE Mumbai Open 2018: 9.62VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018: 9.71Oculus Cube Open 2019: 8.96RGIT Cube Open 2019: 9.22VES Cube Open 2019: 8.95Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019: 8.23Dream City Cube Open 2019: 8.91Oculus Cube Open 2020: 7.83Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022: 6.95IISER Pune Cube Open 2022: 8.36Mumbai Winter Open 2022: 8.94Korum Cube Challenge 2023: 8.34Oculus Cube Open 2023: 7.57Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 6.41Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 8.16Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 8.23Growel's 101 Cube Open 2023: 8.10Pune Unscrambled 2023: 9.16Indian Nationals 2023: 8.04Oculus Cube Open 2024: 7.52Bengaluru Summer 2024: 8.35Stevenage August 2024: 7.20Cubing Returns to PCMC 2025: 7.46Pune Unscrambled 2025: 9.27Mumbai Twistathon 2025: 8.13Mumbai Summer Cube Fiesta 2026: 7.786.4120.0726 Dec 20155 Apr 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-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.63 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.