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Hari Anirudh

3×3 blindfolded · top 1.2% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2013 · 2013ANIR01

Hari Anirudh has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 19.42, set at Manchester BLD Day 2023, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in India. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 90 competitions since March 2013, he has put 2,869 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:15.63 in March 2013 to 10.61, an 86% improvement. Hari has entered 90 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 1.2% of 12,178 all-time
19.42
signature single · Manchester BLD Day 2023
2,869
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 blindfolded19.4223.14
top 1.2%3 / 598
Pyraminx3.004.54
top 3.6%211 / 8,934
4×4 blindfolded2:32.613:36.42
top 5.5%6 / 69
Skewb3.306.34
top 6.6%159 / 3,524
2×22.444.63
top 8.3%672 / 12,146
3×310.6112.67
top 9.3%1,047 / 20,018
5×5 blindfolded6:52.89—
top 10.0%4 / 31
Square-112.8017.72
top 11.5%64 / 805
Megaminx1:04.241:14.12
top 12.2%104 / 1,443
3×3 Multi-Blind14 of 16 cubes · 54:21—
top 12.5%8 / 168
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves38.33
top 20.4%75 / 600
3×3 one-handed21.0024.16
top 23.2%839 / 4,516
4×41:03.881:12.05
top 40.5%1,313 / 4,186
Clock16.1722.24
top 52.5%446 / 1,092

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

Pragyan Cube Open 2013: 1:15.63Shaastra Cube Open 2014: 31.03Carte Blanche Kube Open 2014: 22.30Pragyan Cube Open 2014: 22.91C3 Cube Open 2014: 33.15Indian Cube Challenge 2014: 19.75Aaruush Cube Open 2014: 15.79VIT Rubiks Cube Challenge 2014: 14.32Shaastra Cube Open 2015: 19.55Indian Nationals 2015: 19.08REC Cube Challenge 2015: 15.40Brain Studio Winter Open 2015: 15.09Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 15.36Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 15.52Indian Nationals 2016: 12.73VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2016: 14.76Tathva Cube Open 2016: 13.61Montfort Championship 2016: 12.95Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 14.32Carte Blanche Kube Open 2017: 13.25Anokha Cubing Royale 2017: 14.19IIA Summer Open April 2017: 12.25Indian Nationals 2017: 17.28IIA Summer Open - May 2017: 13.723rd Guwahati Open 2017: 12.72National Cubing Region Open 2017: 13.61SSN Cube Open 2017: 11.41ICC Juniors August 2017: 13.70Bit Cube Open 2017: 13.93VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2017: 12.60NIT Trichy Open 2017: 12.44Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2017: 14.00Grand Cube Open 2017: 12.18Cubing Kerala Winter Open 2017: 11.62Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 13.05Udaan Rubik's Cube Open 2018: 12.32CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 13.61Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 13.50Takshashila Cube Open 2018: 12.25SSN Cube Open 2018: 11.99Lights of Reykjavik 2019: 12.69Savoie Open 2019: 10.61Istres Open 2019: 11.00Just Cube Open 2019: 12.48Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 12.61Denmark & Friends 2019: 11.39French Championship 2019: 12.77Belgian Solstice 2019: 13.83Paris Open 2019: 14.12Seraing Open 2019: 12.34Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 11.71Mémorial François Courtès - Un Temps pour Lui 2020: 10.76Montpellier Open 2022: 12.72Paris Open 2022: 13.24Fada Open 2022: 10.86Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 13.78Stevenage January 2024: 12.36CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 12.49Hampshire Winter 2024: 13.6810.611:15.632 Mar 201317 Feb 2024

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-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 4.42 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.