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Aryan Baskar Rao

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023RAOA01

Aryan Baskar Rao has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.34, set at New-Cumberland County 2025, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 958th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2023, he has put 501 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.30 in April 2023 to 10.34, a 40% improvement. Aryan has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.34
signature single · New-Cumberland County 2025
501
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.3412.63
top 8.5%958 / 20,018
2×22.804.00
top 12.0%993 / 12,146
Pyraminx5.167.06
top 14.2%820 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed24.0131.52
top 31.5%1,156 / 4,516
Skewb8.8911.69
top 47.7%1,333 / 3,524
4×41:17.131:32.86
top 53.5%1,807 / 4,186
Megaminx3:43.17—
early days — 2 solves1,113 / 1,443

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 Spring 2023: 17.30CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 14.45Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 12.27Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 10.64Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 11.97New-Cumberland County 2024: 13.86River Hill Spring 2024: 12.05Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 13.36UMBC Fall 2024: 12.52East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 12.50CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 10.55Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 12.27River Hill Fall 2024: 12.09Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 11.58New-Cumberland County 2025: 10.34Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 12.08Front Royal Spring 2025: 11.71Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.85Virginia Championship 2025: 12.32UMBC Fall 2025: 13.64Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 11.3310.3417.3015 Apr 20239 May 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.