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Arnav Arora

3×3 one-handed · top 0.18% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015AROR02

Arnav Arora has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.88, set at Indian Nationals 2019, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in India. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since January 2015, he has put 2,302 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.94 in January 2015 to 6.18, a 61% improvement. Arnav has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.18% of 73,695 all-time
7.88
signature single · Indian Nationals 2019
2,302
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 one-handed7.8811.43
top 0.18%4 / 4,516
2×20.911.52
top 0.39%20 / 12,146
3×36.187.39
top 0.6%54 / 20,018
4×426.2531.20
top 1.1%25 / 4,186
5×549.2755.38
top 1.6%17 / 1,525
Pyraminx2.864.21
top 3.2%178 / 8,934
Skewb2.704.06
top 3.6%74 / 3,524
Square-19.7113.25
top 5.6%29 / 805
7×72:43.382:56.00
top 6.3%21 / 360
6×61:51.401:54.61
top 7.7%35 / 531
Megaminx1:05.651:12.69
top 13.1%114 / 1,443
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves34.00
top 17.4%56 / 600
Clock12.0326.84
top 35.1%294 / 1,092

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

PB Smashathon 2015: 15.94Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 12.91MathSoc Open 2016: 11.75Indian Nationals 2016: 10.75National Cubing Region Open 2016: 10.97Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2016: 9.61Cubing Complexity 2016: 10.21MathSoc Open 2017: 9.42Cube Challenge Quark 2017: 9.11Delhi Open 2017: 7.90SNU Open 2017: 8.53Indian Nationals 2017: 9.12National Cubing Region Open 2017: 8.75Delhi Cube Splash 2017: 8.97Cube Jatra 2017: 6.99Speedcubing ESYA 2017: 7.96Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2017: 7.39MathSoc Open 2018: 7.74Pink City Open 2018: 7.77SNU Open 2018: 7.52Indian Nationals 2018: 6.97Bengaluru Championship 2018: 7.63WCA Asian Championship 2018: 6.74Indian Nationals 2019: 6.18SNU Autumn Open 2019: 7.62Bennett University Cube Open 2020: 6.28LNMIIT Jaipur Cube Open 2023: 7.18Odd Day In Delhi 2024: 6.79Agra Cube Open 2026: 7.076.1815.9417 Jan 201521 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-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.88 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.