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Jay Nikhil Gadgil

2×2 · top 0.82% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023GADG01

Jay Nikhil Gadgil has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.12, set at Fastest Fingers First Pune 2024, puts him in the top 0.82% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in India. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 43 competitions since January 2023, he has put 1,422 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.00 in January 2023 to 7.58, a 55% improvement. Jay has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.82% of 186,767 all-time
1.12
signature single · Fastest Fingers First Pune 2024
1,422
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×21.122.95
top 0.82%48 / 12,146
Clock3.393.87
top 1.3%9 / 1,092
3×37.5811.07
top 2.1%192 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed11.3114.34
top 2.2%62 / 4,516
Skewb2.905.10
top 4.5%99 / 3,524
Pyraminx3.947.86
top 7.4%420 / 8,934
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves39.33
top 30.0%124 / 600
4×41:05.911:13.10
top 42.8%1,393 / 4,186
Square-132.7439.24
top 54.6%381 / 805
Megaminx2:31.16—
top 61.6%719 / 1,443
5×54:13.19—
early days — 1 solve1,330 / 1,525

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

DSK Cube Open 2023: 17.00Saraswati Open 2023: 14.88Oculus Cube Open 2023: 12.31IISER Pune Summer Open 2023: 16.18Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 10.61Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 11.85Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 12.15Growel's 101 Cube Open 2023: 11.95Pune Unscrambled 2023: 13.38IISER Pune Winter Open 2024: 12.55Synocubix 2024: 14.78Oculus Cube Open 2024: 14.32Mumbai Twistathon 2024: 11.64Fastest Fingers First Pune 2024: 12.15Pune Unscrambled 2024: 11.85Pune Cube Carnival 2024: 11.47Kalyani Cube Open 2024: 9.88IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024: 12.18Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2024: 13.05Ileseum Cube Open 2025: 11.19Cubing Returns to PCMC 2025: 11.20Saraswati College Cube Open 2025: 11.05Korum Cube Challenge 2025: 11.11Pune Summer Open 2025: 10.19Pune Cube Carnival 2025: 9.99Pune Unscrambled 2025: 11.28Fastest Fingers First Pune 2025: 10.45IISER Pune October Heat 2025: 9.25Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2025: 10.29Pune Twistathon 2025: 10.68Pune Spring Open 2026: 9.87IISER Pune PARAM Open 2026: 7.58Mumbai Summer Cube Fiesta 2026: 8.90Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2026: 10.47Ileseum Cube Open 2026: 11.1624K Glitterati Cube Open 2026: 9.227.5817.0014 Jan 202321 Jun 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.