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Aarush Paladhi

3×3 · top 2.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025PALA11

Aarush Paladhi has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.80, set at UMBC Fall 2026, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,475th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since June 2025, he has put 582 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.36 in June 2025 to 7.80, a 52% improvement. Aarush has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 288,433 all-time
7.80
signature single · UMBC Fall 2026
582
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.809.58
top 2.5%1,475 / 60,666
Pyraminx3.024.94
top 3.7%999 / 29,168
2×21.823.31
top 3.7%1,486 / 41,674
Skewb2.896.11
top 4.5%708 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed15.3219.84
top 8.9%1,196 / 15,900
Square-112.8416.17
top 11.7%821 / 6,846
5×51:15.911:23.97
top 16.1%1,267 / 9,537
4×444.5650.72
top 17.8%2,733 / 19,354
Megaminx1:14.561:29.34
top 18.4%1,270 / 8,026
Clock10.0212.09
top 25.0%1,966 / 9,172
6×62:38.832:49.34
top 30.2%1,082 / 4,262
7×74:33.414:45.16
top 42.2%1,226 / 3,236
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves54.00
top 76.9%1,592 / 2,059

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

Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 16.36Doing Time in Moundsville 2025: 14.21More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 13.64Virginia Championship 2025: 13.73Fredericksburg Summer AM 2025: 14.33UMBC Fall 2025: 11.97River Hill Fall 2025: 11.63Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 12.26UMBC Winter 2026: 10.70Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 11.08Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 10.78Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.48Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 10.04Moore Cubes in Loudoun 2026: 7.98UMBC Fall 2026: 7.80Virginia Championship 2026: 9.757.8016.3621 Jun 202517 Oct 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.80 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.