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Advait Bandekar
3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024BAND08
Advait Bandekar has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.80, set at Saraswati Open 2024, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 433rd in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since April 2024, he has put 70 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Advait has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% 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 | 8.80 | 9.90 | top 4.4% | 433 / 20,018 | |
| 4×4 | 40.15 | 44.45 | top 12.3% | 332 / 4,186 | |
| 5×5 | 1:20.19 | 1:22.79 | top 19.3% | 212 / 1,525 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.56 | 27.39 | top 22.0% | 789 / 4,516 | |
| 2×2 | 3.99 | 4.78 | top 26.4% | 2,281 / 12,146 | |
| Megaminx | 1:28.06 | 1:40.55 | top 26.9% | 271 / 1,443 |
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
- 6 Apr 2024First competition: Saraswati Open 2024. A 9.36 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Mumbai Twistathon 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Mumbai Cube Challenge 2025 · 15 Feb 2025
- DJSCE Cube Open 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- Saraswati Open 2024 · 6 Apr 2024 — 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.
- Trishan Gupta — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead once
- Shubham Maharana — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
Targets move as he improves.