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Karthik Venkat

2×2 · top 6.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018VENK04

Karthik Venkat has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.21, set at Cubing Simple in Temple 2025, puts him in the top 6.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,504th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since March 2018, he has put 517 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.37 in March 2018 to 9.61, a 71% improvement. Karthik has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.3% of 186,767 all-time
2.21
signature single · Cubing Simple in Temple 2025
517
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.215.51
top 6.3%2,504 / 40,951
3×39.6110.48
top 6.4%3,539 / 59,724
Skewb5.7510.13
top 23.8%3,854 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded1:49.97—
top 30.0%621 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed25.2335.05
top 34.8%4,591 / 15,683
Pyraminx8.0212.56
top 36.3%10,288 / 28,708
Clock15.9920.03
top 51.8%4,249 / 8,927
4×41:18.541:23.85
top 54.7%9,352 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves59.33
early days — 3 solves1,771 / 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

Longhorn Spring 2018: 33.37CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 28.28Turning in Texas 2018: 23.48DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 26.43Trinity Valley Open 2018: 25.06Longhorn Fall 2018: 25.20CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 22.99Austin Summer 2019: 17.31Houston Winter 2020: 13.26CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 12.14Cedar Park Winter 2023: 12.23CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 9.92CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.69Texas Championship 2023: 12.43Keep Austin Weird 2023: 10.28Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 10.91Texas Championship 2024: 10.68Austin Cubing Limits Winter 2025: 9.80The Heart of Texas 2025: 9.61Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 10.23Brazos Cubing Spring 2025: 12.77Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.82DFW Cubing Fall 2025: 10.61DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 10.68Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.919.6133.3710 Mar 20182 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.