People · India
Nandan Velayudam D
Pyraminx · top 8.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023DNAN01
Nandan Velayudam D has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.06, set at Play Extreme Cubing A 2025, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 455th in India. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since May 2023, he has put 213 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 6.76 in April 2024 to 4.06, a 40% improvement. Nandan has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 4.06 | 5.70 | top 8.0% | 455 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 | 11.75 | 14.81 | top 13.0% | 1,552 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 3.08 | 3.79 | top 15.2% | 1,248 / 12,146 | |
| Clock | 8.48 | 9.91 | top 17.5% | 151 / 1,092 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.54 | 27.01 | top 22.0% | 785 / 4,516 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:15.76 | 3:28.34 | top 38.5% | 176 / 598 | |
| 4×4 | 1:47.44 | — | early days — 2 solves | 2,710 / 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
Best single per competition, Pyraminx. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 May 2024First sub-15 3×3: 12.33 at CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024.
- 18 May 2024Three personal bests in one day at CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024.
- 17 Mar 2024First sub-20 3×3: 17.81 at Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024.
- 28 May 2023First competition: Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Sunday 2023. A 22.57 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- SSN Cube Challenge 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- VIT Cube Open 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Play Extreme Cubing A 2025 · 3 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Bangalore Cube Open 2025 · 18 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Back to Cubing Madras 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- VIT Cube Open 2024 · 21 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024 · 17 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Sunday 2023 · 28 May 2023
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 32 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Varnika Sri Palli — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- Vikram Gopinath — met in 22 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
Targets move as he improves.