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Ishaan Lal

4×4 · top 0.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014LALI01

Ishaan Lal has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 22.83, set at NYU Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 53rd in the United States. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 88 competitions since August 2014, he has put 4,140 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.85 in August 2014 to 5.93, a 76% improvement. Ishaan has entered 88 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.3% of 83,917 all-time
22.83
signature single · NYU Spring 2026
4,140
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×422.8327.50
top 0.3%53 / 19,072
Megaminx32.6940.31
top 0.43%31 / 7,841
3×35.937.54
top 0.45%297 / 59,724
5×545.2351.42
top 0.71%59 / 9,401
Square-15.939.04
top 0.76%68 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves24.00
top 1.0%28 / 2,040
2×21.232.21
top 1.1%474 / 40,951
Skewb1.934.07
top 1.2%185 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed10.8215.18
top 1.7%273 / 15,683
7×72:16.742:22.65
top 1.9%51 / 3,184
6×61:30.321:36.62
top 2.0%77 / 4,196
Pyraminx2.534.06
top 2.3%601 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded1:00.491:37.65
top 13.2%251 / 2,092
Clock10.1511.90
top 25.8%1,982 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 9 cubes · 55:21—
top 28.7%213 / 731
4×4 blindfolded7:03.19—
top 37.1%156 / 440
5×5 blindfolded25:21.00—
early days — 1 solve171 / 218

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

US Nationals 2014: 24.85Starlight Open 2014: 25.10Doylestown Spring 2015: 17.39Liberty Science 2015: 11.57US Nationals 2016: 11.55Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 7.95Montreal Open Winter 2017: 9.07Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 8.89Big Cube Bash 2017: 9.00CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.87Maryland 2017: 9.58UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 10.07Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 8.51Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 7.46New York City Winter 2018: 9.92Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 8.29Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 7.66Rutgers Spring 2018: 9.05No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 8.38Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 7.52North Plainfield Open 2018: 7.99New Hope Open Spring 2018: 8.32Maryland 2018: 8.33First State 2018: 8.33CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.08CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 9.16Princeton Fall 2018: 8.74Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 6.27Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 8.31Princeton Winter 2019: 8.34Minnesota Qualifier 2019: 7.45No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 7.61Princeton Winter 2020: 9.10New York Championship 2022: 7.22NxNaperville 2022: 6.41Pretzel Mania 2022: 7.27Princeton Fall 2022: 7.18West Chester Fall 2022: 6.91Pretzel Mania 2023: 7.84Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 7.28CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.92West Side Cube Clash 2023: 7.44Warm Up in Mount Prospect 2023: 7.69Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 7.77Princeton Fall 2023: 7.61Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 5.93Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 6.85South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 7.19Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.22Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 6.53Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 6.88Pop Off Princeton 2025: 7.95PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 7.11Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 6.30Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 6.61NYU Spring 2025: 6.41King of Prussia Spring 2025: 7.71Summit Summer 2025: 6.90Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.95Fort Lee Summer 2025: 6.68CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 6.84Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 6.28Flushing Glow Autumn AM 2025: 7.43Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 6.30Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 7.59Fort Lee Winter 2026: 6.67Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 6.49Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 6.70NYU Spring 2026: 7.75King of Prussia Summer 2026: 6.695.9325.101 Aug 201425 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.

  • Livia Kleiner — met in 461 rounds, finished ahead 183 times
  • Dana Yi — met in 435 rounds, finished ahead 209 times
  • Chris Chi — met in 336 rounds, finished ahead 177 times

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 2.83 away.
  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 2.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.