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Aryan Malhotra

3×3 · top 4.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018SETH01

Aryan Malhotra has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.83, set at South India Cube Championship 2025, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 457th in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since June 2018, he has put 1,525 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.56 in June 2018 to 8.83, a 72% improvement. Aryan has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 288,433 all-time
8.83
signature single · South India Cube Championship 2025
1,525
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×38.8311.20
top 4.5%457 / 20,146
Clock5.787.76
top 6.5%54 / 1,109
2×22.454.64
top 8.5%694 / 12,225
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves43.67
top 9.9%29 / 612
4×438.1542.95
top 10.0%274 / 4,220
Pyraminx4.778.55
top 11.8%687 / 8,971
Skewb4.649.49
top 15.6%427 / 3,548
Megaminx1:17.731:29.71
top 20.4%195 / 1,458
3×3 one-handed20.3929.46
top 21.6%771 / 4,534
5×51:34.341:50.58
top 31.0%377 / 1,537
Square-131.6137.80
top 52.5%369 / 813
6×63:49.804:06.74
top 62.4%304 / 537
3×3 blindfolded3:57.716:17.26
top 67.5%357 / 605

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

Delhi Cubing Heat Wave 2018: 31.56Speedcubing ESYA 2019: 16.50SNU Autumn Open 2019: 14.20Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2019: 14.45Mathsoc Delhi Open 2024: 15.39Gurugram Spring Open 2024: 14.28Gurugram Monsoon Cube Open 2024: 14.29Mahavira Delhi Cube Open Sunday 2024: 13.09Telangana Cube Championship 2024: 11.41Gurugram Autumn Cube Open 2024: 10.77Delhi Cube Challenge 2024: 12.97D21 Delhi Cube Open B 2024: 13.05Odd Day In Delhi 2024: 11.81D21 Delhi Cube Open B 2025: 10.65Nepali Nationals 2025: 11.49Delhi Cube Open 2025: 12.93Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2025: 10.79Noida Cube Open 2025: 10.49Don't Pause in Delhi 2025: 11.81D21 Delhi Summer Cube Open A 2025: 11.21South India Cube Championship 2025: 8.83Speedcubing Delhi ESYA 2025: 10.67BITS Pilani Cube Open 2025: 9.71Delhi Autumn Showdown 2025: 11.41Surge SNU Cube Open 2025: 10.08Cambridge CoEd Cube Open 2025: 11.56BITS Pilani CubeStorm 2025: 10.83Delhi Cube Challenge 2025: 10.68Noida Winter Cube Open 2025: 11.12DC Hyderabad Winter Open 2025: 10.53Don't Pause in Delhi 2026: 11.06Agra Cube Open 2026: 11.17Delhi Cube Open 2026: 9.25Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2026: 9.68Gurugram Cube Open 2026: 9.99Esplanade Cube Open 2026: 11.62Noida Summer Cube Open 2026: 11.00Delhi Summer Showdown 2026: 9.76BITS Pilani CubeStorm 2026: 9.21Galgotias Cube Open 2026: 9.888.8331.5624 Jun 201819 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-5 Clock single — 1,444 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.