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Kaustubh Bukkapatnam
2×2 · top 0.98% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022BUKK01
Kaustubh Bukkapatnam has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.18, set at Naperville Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.98% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 410th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2022, he has put 820 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.05 in July 2022 to 6.71, a 33% improvement. Kaustubh has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.18 | 3.05 | top 0.98% | 410 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 6.71 | 8.44 | top 1.0% | 650 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.04 | 14.58 | top 3.0% | 475 / 15,683 | |
| Skewb | 4.05 | 9.47 | top 11.2% | 1,727 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.99 | 8.63 | top 13.1% | 3,413 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 41.59 | 52.42 | top 14.0% | 2,087 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 1:31.18 | 1:41.51 | top 28.3% | 2,219 / 9,401 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 35 moves | 39.33 | early days — 3 solves | 652 / 2,040 | |
| 6×6 | 4:02.56 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,569 / 4,196 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.67 at Milwaukee First 2022.
- 16 Jul 2022First competition: NxNaperville 2022. A 10.05 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UIUC Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- Naperville Fall 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Racing Kane 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Naperville Winter 2025 · 1 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- 4x4 by Four Madison Lakes 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
- Kenosha First B 2024 · 17 Nov 2024
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024
- Chicago Area Twist Spring B 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Muske-GO 2024 · 6 Apr 2024
- Naperville Winter 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024 · 6 Jan 2024
- DeKalb Cubing Fall 2023 · 22 Oct 2023
- Fort Wayne Favorites 2023 · 3 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Get to Work Chicagoland 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Naperville Winter A 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- 2x2 in a Madison Lodge 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Iowa Fall 2022 · 19 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Mt. Prospect Open 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Milwaukee First 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- NxNaperville 2022 · 16 Jul 2022
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.
- Ant Irizarry — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 88 times
- Simon Kellum — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Brian Johnson — met in 128 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.