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Anish Venkataraman

3×3 one-handed · top 1.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022VENK14

Anish Venkataraman has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.52, set at Brazos Cubing Fall 2024, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 225th in the United States. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since December 2022, he has put 1,598 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.26 in December 2022 to 8.08, a 21% improvement. Anish has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.4% of 73,695 all-time
10.52
signature single · Brazos Cubing Fall 2024
1,598
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed10.5213.20
top 1.4%225 / 15,683
3×38.0810.39
top 2.9%1,673 / 59,724
2×21.743.77
top 3.3%1,274 / 40,951
4×437.4441.99
top 9.2%1,375 / 19,072
Square-111.9916.06
top 9.9%694 / 6,743
Megaminx1:00.701:05.89
top 10.4%715 / 7,841
Pyraminx4.946.46
top 12.8%3,321 / 28,708
Skewb4.547.93
top 14.8%2,307 / 18,907
5×51:17.641:25.67
top 17.3%1,341 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded1:18.591:40.78
top 19.1%372 / 2,092
Clock8.8810.64
top 19.4%1,483 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 16:21—
early days — 2 solves381 / 731
6×63:31.614:15.74
top 55.3%2,090 / 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

Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 10.26Cedar Park Winter 2023: 11.21Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 11.30Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 11.75CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 10.63Space City Summer 2023: 9.52Texas Championship 2023: 11.05Keep Austin Weird 2023: 10.24DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 8.79DFW Winter Variation 2024: 8.89DFW Megacomp 2024: 9.72DFW Eclipse Cubing 2024: 10.05Don't Pop Austin 2024: 10.79DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 10.49CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 9.72Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 9.72DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 8.08Texas Championship 2024: 9.86Space City Winter TX 2025: 11.42Brazos Cubing Spring 2025: 9.17CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 9.00Texas Championship 2025: 9.52DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 9.81Round Rock Splash & Solve 2026: 8.81Temple Qualifier 2026: 8.67Georgetown Favorite Event Day 2026: 10.318.0811.7517 Dec 202231 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.