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Krishiv Kothari

3×3 · top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017KOTH01

Krishiv Kothari has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.85, set at Going Fast in Grandview 2024, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,876th in the United States. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2017, he has put 440 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.59 in April 2017 to 9.85, a 68% improvement. Krishiv has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.85
signature single · Going Fast in Grandview 2024
440
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8512.35
top 7.0%3,876 / 59,724
2×22.353.04
top 7.5%2,957 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed15.2417.51
top 8.6%1,154 / 15,683
Clock10.0012.29
top 25.1%1,923 / 8,927
5×51:29.731:39.08
top 27.1%2,117 / 9,401
Square-120.2728.58
top 28.6%1,869 / 6,743
Pyraminx8.1211.15
top 37.2%10,555 / 28,708
4×41:01.031:07.41
top 37.6%6,069 / 19,072
Skewb8.3712.05
top 44.1%7,744 / 18,907
6×63:26.083:27.93
top 53.2%2,008 / 4,196
7×76:01.65—
early days — 3 solves2,066 / 3,184
Megaminx3:36.52—
early days — 1 solve6,805 / 7,841

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

Overland Park Open 2017: 30.59Heartland Championships 2017: 22.74BarbeCubing 2018: 27.49South Dakota First 2018: 19.53BarbeCubing Fall 2018: 21.33Respect Kansas 2018: 16.44BarbeCubing Spring 2019: 18.84Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022: 11.86Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 11.82KCKC 3 Cubing for Cake 2023: 10.99Going Fast in Grandview 2024: 9.85Missouri Championship 2024: 11.05Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 10.35Missouri Championship 2025: 11.50Berkeley September Weekday 2025: 12.099.8530.5929 Apr 201719 Sep 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.85 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.