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Ishaan Bansal

3×3 · top 0.17% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023BANS03

Ishaan Bansal has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.23, set at Lakewood Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 119th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since May 2023, he has put 1,661 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.82 in May 2023 to 5.23, a 76% improvement. Ishaan has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.17% of 284,439 all-time
5.23
signature single · Lakewood Spring 2026
1,661
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.237.41
top 0.17%119 / 59,724
2×20.921.95
top 0.41%175 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.803.17
top 0.83%239 / 28,708
4×429.8834.20
top 2.8%450 / 19,072
Clock4.285.70
top 2.9%250 / 8,927
Skewb3.045.78
top 5.2%795 / 18,907
5×51:04.291:09.24
top 8.0%626 / 9,401
Square-111.6614.41
top 9.2%655 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed15.8719.95
top 9.9%1,318 / 15,683
6×62:06.302:16.15
top 13.8%502 / 4,196
Megaminx1:12.171:17.85
top 16.9%1,156 / 7,841
7×73:37.533:47.80
top 22.5%639 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves38.33
top 37.3%810 / 2,040

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

Kent Spring 2023: 21.82Mill Creek 2023: 22.47Bothell Summer 2023: 17.11SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 13.82Kent Summer 2023: 16.18Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 15.33Lakewood Fall 2023: 14.40SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 13.93UW or U Don't 2023: 13.52Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 10.93Kenmore Mini C 2024: 11.41Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 8.33Olympia Classic 2024: 9.02Kent Spring 2024: 11.55Bellingham Spring 2024: 9.83Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 9.49CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 9.60Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 10.14Tacoma Summer 2024: 7.82Kent Summer 2024: 8.84Oregon Championship 2024: 9.23Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 8.48Bellingham Fall 2024: 8.48Olympia Fall 2024: 8.83Tacoma Winter 2025: 8.67Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025: 7.42Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 7.60Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 8.05Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 7.92Kent Spring 2025: 7.53Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.78Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.35 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 8.99Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025: 7.32Lakewood Fall 2025: 6.97Kent Fall 2025: 6.98Burnaby Winter 2026: 6.20North Sound Spring 2026: 6.94Lakewood Spring 2026: 5.23Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 7.17Kent Spring 2026: 6.21Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.62Seattle Summer 2026: 6.995.2322.4727 May 202311 Jul 2026

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.