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Akansh Karody

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016KARO01

Akansh Karody has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.09, set at Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 868th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since June 2016, he has put 415 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.91 in June 2016 to 7.09, a 66% improvement. Akansh has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.09
signature single · Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025
415
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.098.92
top 1.4%868 / 59,724
4×435.2443.66
top 6.9%1,072 / 19,072
2×22.513.75
top 9.0%3,543 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.9813.09
top 44.7%12,828 / 28,708

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

Lexington Summer 2016: 20.91Sharon Summer 2016: 21.55Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 20.45UMass ODS Fall 2016: 21.63Weston Spring 2017: 18.68CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 15.53Sharon Summer 2017: 13.20Rally In The Valley 2017: 12.76Maryland 2017: 12.04Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 16.19Weston Fall 2017: 9.82BU Spring 2018: 9.89The Battle of Lexington 2018: 10.90Boston University Winter 2019: 11.25CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 10.25Loon Cubikon 2022: 8.13Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 10.14QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 7.95Quick in Quincy 2024: 7.94Loon Cubikon 2024: 8.14Wakefield Winter 2024: 7.40The Battle of Lexington 2025: 7.86Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 8.46Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 7.09Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 8.35The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 7.877.0921.6325 Jun 201626 Apr 2025

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.

  • Alex Cohen — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
  • Derek White — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Will Russo — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 9 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.09 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.