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Lakshimi Rajaram

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015RAJA10

Lakshimi Rajaram has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.66, set at Back to Cubing Madras 2025, puts her in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 403rd in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since October 2015, she has put 505 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 32.72 in October 2015 to 8.66, a 74% improvement. Lakshimi has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.66
signature single · Back to Cubing Madras 2025
505
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×38.6610.67
top 4.1%403 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed14.3017.64
top 6.7%207 / 4,516
4×442.5648.56
top 15.2%411 / 4,186
Pyraminx6.037.88
top 20.2%1,210 / 8,934
5×51:35.471:46.60
top 31.9%392 / 1,525
2×24.475.96
top 32.5%2,888 / 12,146
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves44.33
top 33.6%139 / 600
Megaminx2:26.46—
top 59.5%691 / 1,443
Skewb11.6214.18
top 64.1%1,883 / 3,524
Clock19.9725.64
top 64.5%577 / 1,092
6×64:10.224:15.53
top 68.8%346 / 531

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

REC Cube Challenge 2015: 32.72Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 26.59SSN Cube Open 2016: 17.22Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 14.63Grand Cube Open 2017: 13.41Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 15.22Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 16.42SSN Cube Open 2019: 15.78SRM Cube Open 2019: 14.90C3 Cup Finale 2019: 12.51CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 14.71Cubing Returns Bengaluru 2022: 9.80Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022: 8.77KSRCT Cube Open 2022: 10.89Chennai Cubing Club Meetup 2023: 9.75CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 9.86MCC Cube Open 2023: 9.10CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 9.84Back to Cubing Madras 2025: 8.66Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025: 9.148.6632.722 Oct 201515 Mar 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.30 away.

Targets move as she improves.