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Anup Adhikari

4×4 · top 1.9% of 83,917 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016ADHI01

Anup Adhikari has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 28.30, set at Australian Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Nepal. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since January 2016, he has put 1,682 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.58 in January 2016 to 8.52, a 45% improvement. Anup has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 1.9% of 83,917 all-time
28.30
signature single · Australian Nationals 2025
1,682
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNepal
4×428.3036.38
top 1.9%2 / 120
2×21.483.04
top 2.1%1 / 262
Skewb2.684.23
top 3.5%4 / 96
3×38.5211.16
top 3.8%9 / 562
Pyraminx3.214.78
top 4.4%4 / 193
Square-113.0918.61
top 12.1%3 / 26
5×51:15.061:23.22
top 15.4%4 / 42
Megaminx1:16.221:34.93
top 19.4%9 / 39
6×62:31.162:42.61
top 26.2%3 / 12
3×3 one-handed23.9029.25
top 31.2%43 / 132
7×74:05.244:38.04
top 32.7%2 / 4
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves47.67
top 44.7%6 / 14
Clock17.5325.66
top 57.3%11 / 18
3×3 blindfolded5:39.43—
early days — 2 solves13 / 15

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

Nepal Open 2016: 15.58Nepal Speedcubing 2016: 14.71Indian Nationals 2017: 11.35Cube Jatra 2017: 11.68SCMU 2017: 12.64Nepal Open 2017: 10.84GhanaTantra 2018: 10.45Cube Mahotsav 2018: 11.15Biratnagar Open 2018: 10.61Nepal Open 2018: 10.88Nepali Nationals 2019: 11.14Kavre Open 2019: 10.01Cube Jatra 2019: 11.66BhanuBhakta Cube Open 2020: 8.52City of Lakes Nepal 2020: 10.76Welcome Back Nepal 2022: 11.02Australian Nationals 2023: 9.68Queensland Open 2024: 11.17MarsdeNxN 2024: 9.09Speedy Southport 2024: 10.26Brisbane Summer 2025: 11.51QLD State Championship 2025: 9.91Wide Bay Cubing 2025: 11.25Australian Nationals 2025: 9.50Speedy Southport 2025: 9.42Cube Against Cancer Brisbane 2026: 11.198.5215.5816 Jan 201614 Feb 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.30 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.