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Nachiket Likhite

Clock · top 16.5% of 32,048 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014LIKH01

Nachiket Likhite has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 8.26, set at Kalyani Cube Open 2024, puts him in the top 16.5% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 143rd in India. Across 22 competitions since June 2014, he has put 324 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:00.67 in June 2014 to 18.23, a 70% improvement. Nachiket has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 16.5% of 32,048 all-time
8.26
signature single · Kalyani Cube Open 2024
324
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Clock8.2610.85
top 16.5%143 / 1,092
3×318.2320.75
top 34.8%4,799 / 20,018
Pyraminx8.5013.63
top 40.5%2,608 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed27.5043.24
top 40.6%1,493 / 4,516
2×25.727.40
top 47.9%4,592 / 12,146
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves51.00
top 65.6%333 / 600
3×3 blindfolded6:44.52
top 90.5%519 / 598
Skewb21.5735.81
top 91.8%2,929 / 3,524
4×43:37.06
early days — 1 solve4,017 / 4,186

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

Pune Fall Open 2014: 1:00.67Cubing Returns Pune 2022: 25.71IISER Pune Cube Open 2022: 21.62DSK Cube Open 2023: 21.24Saraswati Open 2023: 22.94Oculus Cube Open 2023: 21.10IISER Pune Summer Open 2023: 18.23Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 20.09Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 19.45Pune Unscrambled 2023: 18.39IISER Pune Winter Open 2024: 21.38Fastest Fingers First Pune 2024: 18.90Pune Unscrambled 2024: 18.46Pune Cube Carnival 2024: 20.21Kalyani Cube Open 2024: 19.04IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024: 18.51Ileseum Cube Open 2025: 20.9418.231:00.6721 Jun 20142 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 Clock single — 4,877 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.