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Aarya Vijayaraghavan

3×3 · top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021VIJA02

Aarya Vijayaraghavan has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.57, set at Berkeley Summer 2024, puts him in the top 6.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,472nd in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since December 2021, he has put 141 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.72 in December 2021 to 9.57, a 46% improvement. Aarya has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.57
signature single · Berkeley Summer 2024
141
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.5711.35
top 6.3%3,472 / 59,724
2×24.005.24
top 26.5%10,457 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.0613.62
top 36.7%10,394 / 28,708
Skewb7.9112.62
top 40.6%7,021 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed27.8231.92
top 41.5%5,557 / 15,683
4×41:29.17
top 63.0%11,026 / 19,072

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

Westview Winter A 2021: 17.72Bay Area Speedcubin' 29 AM 2022: 14.26Bay Area Speedcubin' 32 LIVE - SSF 2022: 12.07Berkeley Summer 2022: 12.28Berkeley Summer 2023: 12.17Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 12.20Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 9.61Berkeley Summer 2024: 9.57Folsom Summer 2024: 9.879.5717.7211 Dec 20217 Jul 2024

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 1.57 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.