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Aarin Manik

3×3 · top 0.29% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017MANI03

Aarin Manik has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.61, set at Leersum Squared 2025, puts him in the top 0.29% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 32nd in the United Kingdom. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since September 2017, he has put 765 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.92 in September 2017 to 5.61, a 76% improvement. Aarin has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.29% of 284,439 all-time
5.61
signature single · Leersum Squared 2025
765
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×35.619.12
top 0.29%32 / 6,689
2×21.273.45
top 1.3%104 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed11.5614.11
top 2.5%51 / 1,851
4×434.9138.67
top 6.6%164 / 2,071
5×51:05.731:19.09
top 8.9%117 / 1,151
6×62:54.913:06.99
top 38.5%232 / 548
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves
early days — 2 solves226 / 372
7×75:26.195:49.77
top 58.6%285 / 459

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

SCMU 2017: 22.92Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017: 17.74Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017: 13.64Udaan Rubik's Cube Open 2018: 12.81RGIT Cube Open 2018: 11.36Versatile Cube Open 2018: 12.29Indian Nationals 2018: 9.76KJSCE Mumbai Open 2018: 9.56Oculus Cube Open 2019: 10.30Saraswati Open 2019: 9.31RGIT Cube Open 2019: 8.85IISER Pune Cube Open 2019: 9.98VES Cube Open 2019: 8.56Swiss Nationals 2019: 8.65Swisscubing Cup III 2019: 9.19Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019: 8.41Dream City Cube Open 2019: 9.25DY Patil Cube Open 2020: 8.85Oculus Cube Open 2020: 8.58Saraswati Open 2020: 8.22Cubing Returns Pune 2022: 8.03Swisscubing Cup III 2022: 7.40Mumbai Winter Open 2022: 7.97Leersum Squared 2025: 5.615.6122.921 Sep 20178 Feb 2025

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 0.61 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.