People · India
Aayan Tanwar
3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020TANW01
Aayan Tanwar has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.12, set at Noida Summer Cube Open 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 129th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2020, he has put 602 official solves on the record across seven 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 37.64 in February 2020 to 7.12, an 81% improvement. Aayan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.12 | 8.14 | top 1.5% | 129 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 1.33 | 1.81 | top 1.5% | 102 / 12,146 | |
| Skewb | 2.07 | 6.02 | top 1.6% | 31 / 3,524 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.81 | 4.01 | top 3.0% | 161 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.82 | 17.69 | top 7.8% | 251 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 1:13.82 | 1:18.07 | top 50.5% | 1,686 / 4,186 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 3:58.22 | — | early days — 2 solves | 354 / 598 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 3 Feb 2024Three personal bests in one day at Mathsoc Delhi Open 2024.
- 2 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at SpeedCubing Delhi Open 2023.
- 22 Jul 2023Five personal bests in one day at Studio 21 Open Saturday 2023.
- 17 Feb 2023First sub-30 3×3: 9.56 at Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2023.
- 17 Feb 2023First sub-20 3×3: 9.56 at Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2023.
- 17 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 9.56 at Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2023.
Competitions
- Noida Summer Cube Open 2026 · 20 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Gurugram Cube Open 2026 · 19 Apr 2026
- Speedcubing Delhi ESYA 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Delhi Cube Open 2025 · 8 Mar 2025
- D21 Delhi Cube Open C 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Delhi Cube Challenge 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Gurugram Autumn Cube Open 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Mahavira Delhi Cube Open Saturday 2024 · 20 Jul 2024
- Gurugram Spring Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Mathsoc Delhi Open 2024 · 3 Feb 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Gurugram Cube Open 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- SpeedCubing Delhi Open 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Speedcubing ESYA 2023 · 26 Aug 2023
- Studio 21 Open Saturday 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Moksha Cubing 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2023 · 17 Feb 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- MathSoc Delhi Open 2020 · 15 Feb 2020
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.
- Shrey Relan — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
- Veenayak Bhola — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 37 times
- Divij Yadav — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
Targets move as he improves.