People · United States
Desh Rand
3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024RAND04
Desh Rand has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.72, set at North Sound Spring 2026, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,355th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since May 2024, he has put 395 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.70 in May 2024 to 8.72, a 66% improvement. Desh has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% 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 | 8.72 | 10.08 | top 4.2% | 2,355 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.36 | 3.85 | top 7.6% | 2,991 / 40,951 | |
| Clock | 7.54 | 8.49 | top 13.1% | 998 / 8,927 | |
| Skewb | 4.41 | 6.15 | top 13.8% | 2,147 / 18,907 | |
| Square-1 | 14.02 | 17.86 | top 14.2% | 966 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 53.56 | 1:11.15 | top 29.0% | 4,527 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.61 | 32.03 | top 35.8% | 4,730 / 15,683 |
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
- 21 Aug 2026Three personal bests in one day at Northwest Championship 2026.
- 4 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at North Sound Spring 2026.
- 28 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Warm Up Seattle 2025.
- 31 May 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.91 at Kent Spring 2025.
- 18 Jan 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.36 at Tacoma Winter 2025.
- 9 Nov 2024Three personal bests in one day at Olympia Fall 2024.
Competitions
- Northwest Championship 2026 · 21 Aug 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Seattle Summer 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kent Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- North Sound Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tacoma Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Olympia Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024
- Tacoma Summer 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Olympia Classic 2024 · 5 May 2024
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.
- Anishk Arora — met in 76 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Saharsh Sai Vontela — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Rex Gilmore — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 49 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
Targets move as he improves.