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Aarit Nellore

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022NELL03

Aarit Nellore has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.71, set at Berkeley Fall 2025, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,342nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since August 2022, he has put 438 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.80 in August 2022 to 8.71, a 56% improvement. Aarit has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.71
signature single · Berkeley Fall 2025
438
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7111.26
top 4.2%2,342 / 59,724
2×22.403.41
top 8.0%3,139 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.997.67
top 13.1%3,413 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed21.2126.95
top 23.8%3,055 / 15,683
Skewb6.458.28
top 29.3%4,805 / 18,907
Megaminx2:07.763:03.62
top 50.0%3,721 / 7,841
Square-11:26.36
early days — 3 solves6,415 / 6,743

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

SacCubing XII 2022: 19.80Berkeley Fall 2022: 21.96Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 20.92Berkeley Summer 2023: 14.95Bay Area Speedcubin' 51 Live - SSF 2023: 13.56Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 12.81Davis Fall 2023: 13.52Reno Mini 2023: 15.71Berkeley Fall 2023: 12.94Claws Up Winter 2023: 9.35Bay Area Speedcubin' 55 - San Ramon 2024: 11.51Davis Winter 2024: 10.46Bay Area Speedcubin' 59 LIVE - SSF 2024: 11.38Bay Area Speedcubin' 60 - Mountain View 2024: 10.05Berkeley Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 9.48Bay Area Speedcubin' 61 - San Jose 2024: 10.27Bay Area Speedcubin' 63 - Atherton 2024: 11.10Bay Area Speedcubin' 64 LIVE - SSF 2024: 9.44SacCubing XIX 2025: 10.08Benicia Open 2025: 9.72Berkeley Fall 2025: 8.718.7121.9620 Aug 20224 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.