People · Australia
Anish Shanmugam
3×3 · top 0.45% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016SHAN08
Anish Shanmugam has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.94, set at WCC Western Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in Australia. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since July 2016, he has put 600 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.72 in July 2016 to 5.94, an 85% improvement. Anish has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.94 | 7.52 | top 0.45% | 48 / 11,709 | |
| 2×2 | 1.13 | 2.41 | top 0.85% | 85 / 8,567 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.55 | 14.64 | top 2.4% | 60 / 2,659 | |
| 4×4 | 31.57 | 34.73 | top 3.8% | 105 / 3,051 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.39 | 7.48 | top 9.6% | 442 / 5,993 | |
| 5×5 | 1:10.23 | 1:17.62 | top 11.8% | 157 / 1,356 | |
| Megaminx | 1:22.92 | 1:39.36 | top 23.7% | 287 / 1,277 | |
| Skewb | 6.39 | 8.90 | top 28.8% | 792 / 3,534 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 3:40.61 | — | early days — 2 solves | 282 / 394 |
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
- 31 Aug 2024Six personal bests in one day at La La Land 2024.
- 7 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at WCC Western Championship 2022.
- 17 Sep 2022Three personal bests in one day at Diamond Bar September 2022.
- 28 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 7.18 at Irvine Summer 2022.
- 22 Dec 2018First sub-15 3×3: 13.79 at CubeChella 2018.
- 22 Dec 2018Three personal bests in one day at CubeChella 2018.
Competitions
- DFW Cubing Spring 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- DFW Back to School 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- La La Land 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- UCSD Winter 2024 · 7 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Irvine Fall 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Santa Ana Summer A 2023 · 19 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD For Hemophilia 2023 · 3 Jun 2023
- Circle City Supercharged 2022 · 19 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- WCC Western Championship 2022 · 7 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Diamond Bar September 2022 · 17 Sep 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Irvine Summer 2022 · 28 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Nisei Week 2019 · 17 Aug 2019
- Mudd Winter 2019 · 2 Feb 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- CubeChella 2018 · 22 Dec 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Poly Cubed 2018 · 20 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Anaheim Fall 2018 · 15 Sep 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Newport Fall 2017 · 7 Oct 2017
- Sydney Winter 2017 · 17 Jun 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Cube for Cambodia 2016 · 24 Jul 2016
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
- Elijah Brown — met in 63 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Kyeongmin Choi (최경민) — met in 63 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
Targets move as he improves.