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Akshath Naveen Kumar

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019KUMA37

Akshath Naveen Kumar has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.48, set at Rubik's UK Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 360th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since July 2019, he has put 1,152 official solves on the record across ten 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 1:12.81 in July 2019 to 8.48, an 88% improvement. Akshath has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.48
signature single · Rubik's UK Championship 2025
1,152
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 standingIndia
3×38.489.52
top 3.7%360 / 20,018
2×22.272.99
top 6.8%526 / 12,146
Skewb3.755.63
top 9.2%240 / 3,524
Pyraminx4.547.08
top 10.5%602 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed19.3822.25
top 18.9%660 / 4,516
4×452.831:01.50
top 28.2%844 / 4,186
Megaminx2:00.60—
top 46.0%521 / 1,443
Square-129.0250.75
top 47.6%331 / 805
5×52:27.91—
top 64.8%841 / 1,525
Clock21.32—
top 68.4%621 / 1,092

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

Forum Monsoon Open 2019: 1:12.81Farnworth Spring B 2022: 13.31Stevenage Spring 2022: 10.41Wakefield Spring 2022: 10.10Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 11.21Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 10.88Essex Winter 2022: 10.89Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 9.88Wiltshire Spring 2023: 10.52Reading Spring 2023: 10.78Stevenage May 2023: 9.43Norwich Summer 2023: 10.36Stevenage September 2023: 11.47Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 10.44Stevenage November 2023: 9.77Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 10.38Stevenage April 2024: 11.17Stevenage May 2024: 10.56Stevenage July 2024: 9.23Stevenage Beginners September B 2024: 9.57Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 9.59Stevenage January 2025: 9.50Stevenage April 2025: 10.04Stevenage July 2025: 9.49Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.48Stevenage September 2025: 8.72Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.66Stevenage May 2026: 8.978.481:12.8120 Jul 20199 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.