People · India
Aditya Pillai
3×3 · top 1.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022PILL01
Aditya Pillai has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.38, set at Telangana Cube Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 166th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since June 2022, he has put 362 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.57 in June 2022 to 2.45, a 31% improvement. Aditya has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% 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 | 7.38 | 10.06 | top 1.8% | 166 / 20,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.35 | 9.09 | top 4.9% | 280 / 8,971 | |
| 2×2 | 2.45 | 3.19 | top 8.5% | 694 / 12,225 | |
| Skewb | 5.86 | 10.34 | top 24.7% | 694 / 3,548 | |
| 4×4 | 50.55 | 55.39 | top 25.5% | 769 / 4,220 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.58 | 26.79 | top 33.2% | 1,207 / 4,534 | |
| Square-1 | 36.18 | 51.05 | top 60.2% | 432 / 813 | |
| 5×5 | 2:33.50 | — | early days — 3 solves | 913 / 1,537 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 14 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at South India Cube Championship 2025.
- 24 Sep 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.30 at Varsha Ritu Cube Open 2022.
- 24 Sep 2022Four personal bests in one day at Varsha Ritu Cube Open 2022.
- 18 Jun 2022First competition: DSL Cube Open 2022. A 12.66 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- South India Cube Championship 2025 · 14 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Telangana Cube Championship 2024 · 23 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- DC Open July Hyderabad Sunday 2024 · 14 Jul 2024
- Ankuram Open Sunday 2023 · 15 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Hyderabad Cube Open 2023 · 11 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- DC Open April Sunday 2023 · 23 Apr 2023
- Cubing ATMOSphere 2022 · 26 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Varsha Ritu Cube Open 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- DSL Cube Open 2022 · 18 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Gaurav Bachani — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Velidi Venkata Jagan Mohana Murali Krishna — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (अभिजीत घोडगावकर) — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.38 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
Targets move as he improves.