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Atharva Shreenidhee Vartak
3×3 · top 0.43% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023VART01
Atharva Shreenidhee Vartak has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.89, set at Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025, puts him in the top 0.43% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in India. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since April 2023, he has put 356 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.38 in April 2023 to 5.89, a 64% improvement. Atharva has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.89 | 8.48 | top 0.43% | 38 / 20,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.66 | 5.11 | top 2.6% | 138 / 8,971 | |
| 2×2 | 2.03 | 3.18 | top 5.0% | 378 / 12,225 | |
| 4×4 | 34.56 | 48.64 | top 6.4% | 174 / 4,220 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.15 | 21.41 | top 18.3% | 637 / 4,534 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 9 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at Cubing in the Ocean County 2025.
- 16 Mar 2025Six personal bests in one day at Liberty Science Center Open B 2025.
- 21 Oct 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.91 at Pune Unscrambled 2023.
- 20 May 2023First sub-15 3×3: 12.42 at Pavillion Cube Open 2023.
- 30 Apr 2023First competition: IISER Pune Summer Open 2023. A 16.38 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hazlet Fall 2026 · 11 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Christmas City Cubing PA 2026 · 4 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Fall A 2026 · 12 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- New Providence Spring PM 2026 · 18 Apr 2026
- Fort Lee Winter 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open B 2025 · 16 Mar 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- IISER Pune Winter Open 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Pune Unscrambled 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pune Cube Fiesta 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pavillion Cube Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Summer Open 2023 · 30 Apr 2023
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.
- Feroh Vamanjoor — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
- Kavin Prince — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Arnav Kumar — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
Targets move as he improves.