People · India
Mihir Gokhale
2×2 · top 5.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017GOKH03
Mihir Gokhale has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.09, set at SA State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 407th in India. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since December 2017, he has put 508 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 12.16 in December 2017 to 2.09, an 83% improvement. Mihir has entered 21 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 | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.09 | 3.28 | top 5.4% | 407 / 12,146 | |
| 3×3 | 9.60 | 13.34 | top 6.4% | 673 / 20,018 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.54 | 7.68 | top 16.7% | 985 / 8,934 | |
| Skewb | 4.85 | 6.93 | top 17.0% | 466 / 3,524 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.02 | 22.26 | top 20.5% | 733 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 1:10.28 | 1:19.41 | top 47.2% | 1,559 / 4,186 | |
| Clock | 21.00 | 29.14 | top 67.5% | 608 / 1,092 | |
| Megaminx | 2:44.34 | — | early days — 1 solve | 797 / 1,443 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 25 Dec 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.60 at Mumbai Winter Open 2024.
- 20 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at Pavillion Cube Open 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.47 at Korum Cube Challenge 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023Three personal bests in one day at Korum Cube Challenge 2023.
- 12 Jun 2022Three personal bests in one day at Cubing Returns Pune 2022.
- 23 Feb 2020Three personal bests in one day at Saraswati Open 2020.
Competitions
- Kubing in Klemzig 2025 · 17 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SA State Championship 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- All Welcome Adelaide 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025
- Mumbai Winter Open 2024 · 25 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Northern Adelaide Cubing 2024 · 24 Nov 2024
- Unley Spring 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Oculus Cube Open 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
- DJ Sanghvi Cube Open 2024 · 28 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Pavillion Cube Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Korum Cube Challenge 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing Returns Pune 2022 · 12 Jun 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Saraswati Open 2020 · 23 Feb 2020 — 3 personal bests set
- Oculus Cube Open 2020 · 1 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019 · 10 Aug 2019
- Saraswati Open 2019 · 10 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Oculus Cube Open 2019 · 19 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018 · 28 Dec 2018 — 1 personal best set
- RGIT Cube Open 2018 · 10 Mar 2018
- Udaan Rubik's Cube Open 2018 · 27 Jan 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017 · 26 Dec 2017
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.
- Shubham Maharana — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead once
- Somya Srivastava — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 43 times
- Eeshan Zele — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.60 away.
Targets move as he improves.