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Anuj Sandesh Salvi
3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022SALV02
Anuj Sandesh Salvi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.74, set at Korum Cube Challenge 2024, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 97th in India. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2022, he has put 526 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.60 in June 2022 to 6.74, a 30% improvement. Anuj has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% 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 | 6.74 | 8.63 | top 1.1% | 97 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 1.30 | 2.02 | top 1.4% | 93 / 12,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.93 | 4.33 | top 3.4% | 192 / 8,934 | |
| Skewb | 2.94 | 7.20 | top 4.7% | 108 / 3,524 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.99 | 18.96 | top 6.1% | 188 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 41.25 | 46.62 | top 13.6% | 366 / 4,186 | |
| 5×5 | 1:44.43 | 1:54.15 | top 38.7% | 485 / 1,525 | |
| 6×6 | 4:56.87 | — | early days — 1 solve | 420 / 531 |
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
- 3 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at Korum Cube Challenge 2024.
- 21 Oct 2023Eight personal bests in one day at Pune Unscrambled 2023.
- 16 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at Sunmarke Dubai Open 2022.
- 13 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at mcubes Open 2022.
- 25 Jun 2022First competition: Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022. A 10.04 3×3 single to start from.
- 25 Jun 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.60 at Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022.
Competitions
- Pune Cube Carnival 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Mumbai Twistathon 2024 · 25 May 2024
- Korum Cube Challenge 2024 · 3 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Pune Unscrambled 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 8 personal bests set
- Pavillion Cube Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- DSK Cube Open 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Sunmarke Dubai Open 2022 · 16 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- IISER Pune Cube Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022
- mcubes Open 2022 · 13 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022 · 25 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Shubham Maharana — met in 83 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Siddhesh Pore — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
- Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (अभिजीत घोडगावकर) — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 34 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
Targets move as he improves.