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Bhargava Chandra Inampudi
3×3 · top 1.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025INAM01
Bhargava Chandra Inampudi has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.02, set at Christmas City Cubing PA 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 851st in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since April 2025, he has put 306 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 46.09 in April 2025 to 7.02, an 85% improvement. Bhargava has entered 14 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 | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.02 | 9.58 | top 1.4% | 851 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 2.31 | 3.36 | top 7.2% | 2,894 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.42 | 6.71 | top 9.8% | 2,589 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.94 | 30.52 | top 34.2% | 4,562 / 15,900 | |
| Skewb | 7.55 | 12.85 | top 37.9% | 6,579 / 19,164 | |
| 4×4 | 1:08.39 | 1:14.96 | top 45.3% | 7,639 / 19,354 | |
| Clock | 20.45 | 27.21 | top 66.0% | 5,814 / 9,172 | |
| Megaminx | 3:37.88 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,994 / 8,026 |
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
- 16 May 2026Three personal bests in one day at RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026.
- 1 Mar 2026First sub-10 3×3: 9.54 at Liberty Science Center Open B 2026.
- 1 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Liberty Science Center Open B 2026.
- 14 Aug 2025First sub-15 3×3: 12.64 at South India Cube Championship 2025.
- 14 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at South India Cube Championship 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025First sub-20 3×3: 18.46 at Ashoka One Mall Sat Open 2025.
Competitions
- Hazlet Fall 2026 · 11 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Christmas City Cubing PA 2026 · 4 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Fall A 2026 · 12 Sep 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Long Island Back to School 2026 · 5 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- NAC Prep in Palisades 2026 · 20 Jun 2026
- RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026 · 16 May 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Lodi Solves Spring 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open B 2026 · 1 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- South India Cube Championship 2025 · 14 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Ashoka One Mall Sat Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Summit Summer 2025 · 15 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- PBs in Palisades Spring 2025 · 19 Apr 2025
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.
- Ishan Donavalli — met in 44 rounds, never finished ahead
- Kavin Prince — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Feroh Vamanjoor — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.