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Mohan Balaji

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014BALA07

Mohan Balaji has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.86, set at SSN Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 454th in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since May 2014, he has put 984 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.05 in December 2014 to 8.86, a 63% improvement. Mohan has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.86
signature single · SSN Cube Open 2025
984
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×38.8610.62
top 4.5%454 / 20,018
2×22.173.15
top 6.0%461 / 12,146
Pyraminx3.636.53
top 6.0%342 / 8,934
4×434.3438.10
top 6.1%159 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed15.7718.86
top 9.7%316 / 4,516
5×51:09.721:17.87
top 11.4%130 / 1,525
6×62:13.702:23.02
top 17.2%78 / 531
Skewb5.006.67
top 18.1%497 / 3,524
7×73:26.753:36.82
top 18.7%58 / 360
Clock13.5214.09
top 41.8%354 / 1,092
Megaminx1:54.292:11.47
top 42.8%477 / 1,443
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves44.00
top 48.3%225 / 600
Square-134.8644.99
top 58.1%412 / 805

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

Mumbai Open 2014: 24.05Shaastra Cube Open 2015: 17.54REC Cube Open 2015: 15.80Indian Nationals 2015: 14.41REC Cube Challenge 2015: 12.34Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 11.13Carte Blanche Kube Open 2017: 12.05SRM Cube Open 2017: 10.08Indian Nationals 2017: 11.53Grand Cube Open 2017: 10.89Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 10.23SRM Cube Open 2018: 11.00Indian Nationals 2018: 9.81Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 10.83Cubing Sunday in SSN 2022: 10.82CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 10.45CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 9.33SSN Cube Open 2025: 8.86Pragyan Cube Open 2025: 9.018.8624.0528 Dec 201422 Feb 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 0.86 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.