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Anish Gupta

2×2 · top 6.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022GUPT02

Anish Gupta has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.22, set at New-Cumberland County 2025, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,535th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since March 2022, he has put 939 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.08 in April 2022 to 12.64, a 52% improvement. Anish has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.22
signature single · New-Cumberland County 2025
939
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.225.11
top 6.4%2,535 / 40,951
3×312.6418.31
top 16.2%8,657 / 59,724
Skewb5.238.65
top 20.0%3,169 / 18,907
Pyraminx6.097.49
top 20.7%5,566 / 28,708
Clock11.5313.98
top 32.7%2,568 / 8,927
Square-125.9137.13
top 41.2%2,672 / 6,743
4×41:11.151:23.39
top 48.0%8,016 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed31.8339.26
top 50.8%7,006 / 15,683
5×52:05.532:19.88
top 52.7%4,442 / 9,401
Megaminx2:29.232:42.21
top 60.7%4,583 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves52.33
top 74.2%1,529 / 2,040
7×77:24.31—
top 83.8%2,660 / 3,184
6×65:25.68—
top 86.1%3,521 / 4,196

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

CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 26.08Country Roads Huntington 2022: 21.29Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 29.40New York New Year 2023: 22.77Pretzel Mania 2023: 16.56Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 19.20Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 22.14Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 22.97ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 18.09Chemung Cubing 2023: 18.15Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 21.15Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 17.31Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 17.64River Hill Fall 2023: 23.78Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 12.64CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 15.29Ohio State Winter 2025: 14.98Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 20.35Happy Valley Spring PA 2025: 19.81New-Cumberland County 2025: 17.31Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 14.40Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 17.27Front Royal Spring 2025: 15.97North Carolina Championship 2025: 16.68Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 16.66Virginia Championship 2025: 17.62Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025: 15.68Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 17.57UMBC Winter 2026: 15.48NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 15.04TJHSST Winter 2026: 18.99Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 16.2812.6429.4029 Apr 202213 Jun 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.