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Aarbid Bhattarai

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019BHAT06

Aarbid Bhattarai has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at IEEE Cubing Nepal 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Nepal. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since May 2019, he has put 461 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.54 in May 2019 to 7.04, a 62% improvement. Aarbid has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.04
signature single · IEEE Cubing Nepal 2025
461
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNepal
3×37.048.13
top 1.4%2 / 562
2×21.852.76
top 3.9%4 / 262
3×3 one-handed13.4715.21
top 5.2%7 / 132
4×433.6338.86
top 5.5%5 / 120
Pyraminx4.647.33
top 11.0%15 / 193
5×51:27.531:37.46
top 25.3%12 / 42

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

Nepali Nationals 2019: 18.54Cube Jatra 2019: 11.70BhanuBhakta Cube Open 2020: 10.12Welcome Back Nepal 2022: 7.76KUbing Nepal 2023: 7.08KUbing Nepal 2024: 7.87LOCUS Cubing Nepal 2025: 7.46Nepali Nationals 2025: 7.40IEEE Cubing Nepal 2025: 7.04Radiant Summer Cubing Nepal 2026: 7.157.0418.5424 May 20191 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.