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Mohamed Arif
Pyraminx · top 6.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019ARIF05
Mohamed Arif has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.79, set at Pragyan Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 382nd in India. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since June 2019, he has put 1,209 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.00 in June 2019 to 11.54, a 73% improvement. Mohamed has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.79 | 7.32 | top 6.7% | 382 / 8,934 | |
| 2×2 | 2.59 | 4.37 | top 9.8% | 797 / 12,146 | |
| 3×3 | 11.54 | 14.03 | top 12.3% | 1,441 / 20,018 | |
| Square-1 | 14.77 | 19.49 | top 15.9% | 102 / 805 | |
| Skewb | 4.78 | 8.08 | top 16.5% | 451 / 3,524 | |
| Megaminx | 1:27.54 | 1:55.02 | top 26.6% | 264 / 1,443 | |
| 4×4 | 51.59 | 57.18 | top 26.7% | 787 / 4,186 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.51 | 28.03 | top 27.4% | 986 / 4,516 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 36 moves | 42.33 | top 33.6% | 139 / 600 | |
| 5×5 | 1:56.00 | 2:05.79 | top 46.7% | 602 / 1,525 | |
| 6×6 | 3:46.63 | 3:56.97 | top 61.1% | 290 / 531 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 3:50.98 | — | top 66.0% | 341 / 598 | |
| 7×7 | 5:56.70 | 6:24.23 | top 66.9% | 228 / 360 | |
| Clock | 21.42 | 28.29 | top 68.6% | 625 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 15 Nov 2025Three personal bests in one day at SSN Cube Challenge 2025.
- 22 Feb 2025Six personal bests in one day at Pragyan Cube Open 2025.
- 11 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Back to Cubing Madras 2025.
- 5 Nov 2023Four personal bests in one day at NIT Trichy Cube Open 2023.
- 30 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023.
- 24 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at SSN Cube Sunday 2023.
Competitions
- Cubing at Sri Eshwar Coimbatore 2026 · 26 Jul 2026
- Weekend Cubing Hunt at Coimbatore 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Rockfort City Cubing Challenge 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Cubing at Vivira A 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at Spencer Plaza 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Kalanjiam Cubing Challenge 2025 · 28 Dec 2025
- SSN Cube Challenge 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- VR Bengaluru Cube Open B 2025 · 26 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- VIT Cube Open 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Play Extreme Cubing B 2025 · 3 Aug 2025
- TN Hits Century FMC Ooty 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025 · 20 Apr 2025
- Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Pragyan Cube Open 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- SSN Cube Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Back to Cubing Madras 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024 · 15 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- FMC 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- Salem Summer Open 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024 · 17 Mar 2024
- C3 Republic Day 2024 · 26 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024 · 26 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Indian Nationals FMC 2023 · 10 Dec 2023
- NIT Trichy Cube Open 2023 · 5 Nov 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- SSN Cube Sunday 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Northern Lights Coimbatore Cube Open 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- MCC Cube Open 2023 · 19 Mar 2023
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Chennai Cubing Club Meetup 2023 · 4 Feb 2023
- Cubing Saturday in SSN 2022 · 17 Dec 2022
- KSRCT Cube Open 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Nexus Winter Open 2022 · 26 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Thoothukudi Cube Open 2022 · 9 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Howrah Cube Open 2022 · 4 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022 · 31 Jul 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- 1st Salem Open 2022 · 26 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- SSN Cube Open 2022 · 12 Mar 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Welcome Thrissur 2021 · 21 Nov 2021 — 5 personal bests set
- Chennai Cube Open 2019 · 25 Aug 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- SSN Cube Open 2019 · 27 Jul 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019 · 9 Jun 2019
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.
- Arun Kannan — met in 207 rounds, finished ahead 77 times
- Sanjay Kumar — met in 183 rounds, finished ahead 165 times · head to head
- Mohamed Bilal — met in 164 rounds, finished ahead 23 times · head to head
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
Targets move as he improves.