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Anant Kulkarni

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016KULK01

Anant Kulkarni has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.10, set at Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 298th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2016, he has put 476 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 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:11.01 in January 2016 to 8.10, an 89% improvement. Anant has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.10
signature single · Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023
476
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×38.1010.49
top 3.0%298 / 10,392
Pyraminx3.316.30
top 4.7%164 / 4,858
2×22.533.95
top 9.2%596 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed16.8622.15
top 12.2%263 / 2,620
Skewb6.119.79
top 26.6%643 / 2,907
Clock11.3922.32
top 32.1%285 / 1,029
4×41:08.801:17.51
top 45.7%1,243 / 3,118
3×3 blindfolded6:54.63—
early days — 2 solves322 / 351

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

Edmonton Open Winter 2016: 1:11.01Calgary Open Spring 2016: 41.62Edmonton Limited Summer 2016: 22.47Calgary Limited Fall 2016: 21.51Canadian Open 2017: 23.40Foothills Fall 2017: 22.04Cubetcha A 2021: 11.22Bay Area Speedcubin' 29 AM 2022: 10.48AZCubing Summer 2022: 9.88AZCubing Winter 2022: 11.65Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023: 8.10You Only Need a 3x3 AZ 2023: 8.79Never Stop Turning AZ 2023: 9.81Agoura SpookCubing 2023: 10.73UCLA Spring 2025: 10.18Saratoga Springs Summer 2025: 9.50Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 9.44UCSB Favorites 2025: 10.21Agoura Winter 2026: 8.858.101:11.0130 Jan 201624 Jan 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.

  • Dan Tran — met in 37 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Shane Grogan — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ivan Vanek — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.10 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.