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Anurag Anapindi

3×3 · top 0.87% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022ANAP01

Anurag Anapindi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.51, set at Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025, puts him in the top 0.87% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 562nd in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since October 2022, he has put 745 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.35 in October 2022 to 6.51, a 60% improvement. Anurag has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.87% of 288,433 all-time
6.51
signature single · Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025
745
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.517.76
top 0.87%562 / 60,666
Pyraminx2.626.39
top 2.5%676 / 29,168
2×21.583.03
top 2.5%1,011 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed13.0815.25
top 4.6%670 / 15,900
4×437.0644.45
top 8.8%1,337 / 19,354
Clock6.478.31
top 8.9%710 / 9,172
Square-118.2925.73
top 24.1%1,602 / 6,846
Skewb7.529.62
top 37.7%6,532 / 19,164

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 16.35West Chester Fall 2022: 15.24NJIT Spring 2023: 13.50CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 15.98New Jersey Championship 2024: 10.82Newark Academy Spring 2024: 10.95Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 10.76Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.70UMBC Fall 2024: 8.85An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 8.00Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 8.95Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 8.32Flushing Open AM 2024: 8.53Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 6.66Pop Off Princeton 2025: 8.33Rutgers Winter 2025: 6.89Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 8.24PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 7.98PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 8.22American Dream NJ 2025: 8.12Summit Summer 2025: 7.72Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 6.71Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 6.51PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 8.36RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 7.55Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.20Penn Cube Day Fall 2026: 7.32Hazlet Fall 2026: 6.656.5116.3529 Oct 202211 Oct 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.

  • Ishan Donavalli — met in 133 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
  • Evan Liu — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 82 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.