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Anantha Narayanan Padhuru Madanlal
3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022MADA02
Anantha Narayanan Padhuru Madanlal has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.10, set at CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 128th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since July 2022, he has put 372 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.01 in July 2022 to 7.10, a 36% improvement. Anantha has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 7.10 | 8.33 | top 1.4% | 128 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 1.39 | 3.31 | top 1.7% | 121 / 12,146 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.52 | 17.67 | top 9.2% | 300 / 4,516 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.78 | 6.72 | top 11.9% | 688 / 8,934 | |
| 4×4 | 45.69 | 53.41 | top 19.2% | 533 / 4,186 | |
| Square-1 | 31.80 | 38.15 | top 52.8% | 366 / 805 | |
| Skewb | 15.84 | 19.37 | top 80.8% | 2,467 / 3,524 |
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
- 5 Nov 2023Four personal bests in one day at NIT Trichy Cube Open 2023.
- 17 Dec 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.48 at Cubing Saturday in SSN 2022.
- 31 Jul 2022First competition: KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022. A 11.01 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- VIT Cube Challenge A 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tamil Nadu Cube Challenge 2024 · 2 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- VIT Cube Open 2024 · 21 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024 · 17 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tamil Nadu Cube Open 2024 · 4 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024 · 26 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- NIT Trichy Cube Open 2023 · 5 Nov 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- SSN Cube Saturday 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- MCC Cube Open 2023 · 19 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Saturday in SSN 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Tamil Nadu Cube Open Tournament 2022 · 4 Sep 2022
- Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022 · 31 Jul 2022
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.
- Imruthun Meenakshisundaram — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
- Sujai Shakthivel — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
- Muhammad Rayyan — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
Targets move as he improves.