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Ishan Donavalli

3×3 one-handed · top 0.43% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022DONA04

Ishan Donavalli has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.82, set at Long Island Side Events 2024, puts him in the top 0.43% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in the United States. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since September 2022, he has put 2,675 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.29 in September 2022 to 6.14, a 62% improvement. Ishan has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.43% of 73,695 all-time
8.82
signature single · Long Island Side Events 2024
2,675
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed8.8212.73
top 0.43%64 / 15,683
3×36.147.36
top 0.57%382 / 59,724
2×21.332.57
top 1.5%603 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.223.60
top 1.5%411 / 28,708
Square-17.5410.58
top 2.4%178 / 6,743
Clock4.655.58
top 3.6%296 / 8,927
Skewb2.875.46
top 4.4%671 / 18,907
4×434.3637.87
top 6.2%954 / 19,072
5×51:06.911:13.28
top 9.6%753 / 9,401
Megaminx1:08.751:17.52
top 14.9%1,019 / 7,841
6×62:40.242:54.66
top 30.9%1,090 / 4,196
7×75:28.475:54.01
top 59.3%1,770 / 3,184

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

Pretzel Mania 2022: 16.29Princeton Fall 2022: 17.69New York Yopen 2022: 13.22West Chester Fall 2022: 13.63Pretzel Mania 2023: 11.48NJIT Spring 2023: 11.52PBs in Palisades 2023: 10.21South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 9.18GCU Spring 2023: 10.11North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 10.34Wilmington Warmup 2023: 10.12CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.39Newark's On Track 2023: 12.74Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.64Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 9.74Princeton Fall 2023: 8.74Hudson Valley 2023: 9.13Manhattan Mini A 2023: 8.56GCU Winter 2024: 9.03Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.78Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 8.99Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 8.16PBs in Palisades 2024: 7.87Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 8.78South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 9.94Spring into Summit 2024: 9.17North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 8.84New Jersey Championship 2024: 9.00Newark Academy Spring 2024: 9.48Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 9.30Telangana Cube Championship 2024: 8.09Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.45An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 9.04Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 7.82Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 8.61Cubing-on-Hudson AM 2024: 8.44Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 7.46Kisco Cubing 2025: 7.79Pop Off Princeton 2025: 7.40PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 8.23Rutgers Winter 2025: 6.18Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 6.76PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 7.99Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 6.35American Dream NJ 2025: 6.71Summit Summer 2025: 7.90Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 6.76Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.41Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 8.18CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 7.63Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 6.96PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.11Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 7.48King of Prussia Spring 2026: 6.73PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 6.55NYU Spring 2026: 7.11RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 7.32Cherry Hill Mini May 2026: 6.40NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 6.14Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.64Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.476.1417.693 Sep 202214 Aug 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.

  • Ayden Dincher — met in 363 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 342 rounds, finished ahead 197 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 319 rounds, finished ahead 3 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.