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Mikul Chanakya

4×4 · top 0.74% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022CHAN83

Mikul Chanakya has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 25.19, set at Big N Blind Bangalore March 2024, puts him in the top 0.74% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in India. Until January 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since November 2022, he has put 1,087 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 4×4 best has come down from 37.16 in November 2022 to 25.19, a 32% improvement. Mikul has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.74% of 83,917 all-time
25.19
signature single · Big N Blind Bangalore March 2024
1,087
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
4×425.1931.06
top 0.74%17 / 4,186
6×61:30.101:34.05
top 1.9%8 / 531
5×551.1554.72
top 2.1%22 / 1,525
3×37.778.60
top 2.4%229 / 20,018
7×72:28.822:30.48
top 3.5%13 / 360
2×21.813.27
top 3.6%275 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed13.2715.75
top 4.8%146 / 4,516
3×3 blindfolded1:19.522:10.79
top 19.5%76 / 598
Skewb5.507.62
top 22.0%607 / 3,524
Square-117.8225.89
top 23.0%147 / 805
Pyraminx7.3812.26
top 31.0%1,938 / 8,934
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves49.67
top 48.3%225 / 600
Clock17.7921.36
top 58.1%502 / 1,092

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

Nexus Winter Open 2022: 37.16RVITM Big N Blind 2023: 34.10Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Sunday 2023: 33.85Bangalore Cube Open July 2023: 33.09Big n Blind Bangalore September 2023: 34.80Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023: 32.16Side Events Bangalore Oct 2023: 32.31Bangalore Championship 2023: 30.33Side Events Bangalore Jan 2024: 33.60Side Events Bangalore March 2024: 31.12Big N Blind Bangalore March 2024: 25.19Bangalore Newcomers 2024: 29.86Big N Blind Bangalore April 2024: 27.43Side Events Bangalore May 2024: 32.53CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024: 28.62Puzzling at JHS Aug 2024: 31.26Bangalore Cube Open 2025: 28.62Big N Blind Bangalore March 2026: 26.31Bengaluru Cube Fest C 2026: 32.98Oakridge Independence Cube Open 2026: 29.0325.1937.1626 Nov 202215 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 4×4. 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-1:30 6×6 single — 336 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.