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Ayaan Desai

3×3 · top 40.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025DESA01

Ayaan Desai has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.04, set at Summit Summer 2025, puts him in the top 40.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22,718th in the United States. Across 2 competitions since January 2025, he has put 33 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.40 in January 2025 to 20.04, a 53% improvement. Ayaan has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 40.0% of 284,439 all-time
20.04
signature single · Summit Summer 2025
33
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×320.0423.58
top 40.0%22,718 / 59,724
2×25.988.61
top 50.7%20,606 / 40,951
4×42:00.91
early days — 2 solves15,301 / 19,072
5×53:31.98
early days — 1 solve8,067 / 9,401
Pyraminx21.8227.36
top 94.8%27,661 / 28,708

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

Pop Off Princeton 2025: 42.40Summit Summer 2025: 20.0420.0442.4011 Jan 202515 Jun 2025

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.