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Akash Kelkar

2×2 · top 1.9% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025KELK01

Akash Kelkar has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.43, set at Hawaii Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 753rd in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since March 2025, he has put 524 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.07 in March 2025 to 9.58, a 60% improvement. Akash has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.9% of 189,179 all-time
1.43
signature single · Hawaii Championship 2026
524
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.433.06
top 1.9%753 / 41,674
3×39.5811.86
top 6.4%3,563 / 60,666
4×437.0951.16
top 8.9%1,348 / 19,354
Skewb3.915.68
top 10.3%1,603 / 19,164
Pyraminx4.697.11
top 11.3%3,004 / 29,168
Clock7.758.97
top 13.9%1,095 / 9,172
Square-116.4829.58
top 19.8%1,344 / 6,846
Megaminx1:18.641:26.28
top 20.9%1,464 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed22.7027.96
top 28.0%3,659 / 15,900
5×51:51.172:00.31
top 43.5%3,619 / 9,537

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

SoCal Speedcubing at Super STEM Saturday 2025: 24.07UCSD May A 2025: 19.97Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 15.36Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 17.11West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 13.92West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 12.18Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 12.20UCSD Unofficial Events 2025: 11.30Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 11.09Super Duper San Diego 2026: 10.41UCSD March B 2026: 10.74Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 11.54UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 11.08Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 10.72UCSD Weeknights IX 2026: 14.44West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 10.09Agoura Summer 2026: 10.38Hawaii Championship 2026: 12.88Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 9.589.5824.078 Mar 202522 Aug 2026

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-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.