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Arun Annamalai

3×3 · top 92.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025ANNA02

Arun Annamalai has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 1:02.42, set at Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026, puts him in the top 92.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56,314th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since May 2025, he has put 55 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:46.17 in May 2025 to 1:02.42, a 41% improvement. Arun has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 92.5% of 284,439 all-time
1:02.42
signature single · Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026
55
official solves on the record
20%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×31:02.421:18.12
top 92.5%56,314 / 59,724

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

North Carolina Championship 2025: 1:46.17Virginia Championship 2025: 1:28.69Concord Summer 2025: 1:24.63NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 1:32.87Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 1:27.04NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 1:19.17NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 1:25.58Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 1:02.42Apex Algs Again 2026: 1:28.10Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026: 1:15.64Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 1:13.611:02.421:46.1724 May 20252 Jul 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-1:00 3×3 single — 260,367 people have one; it is 2.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.