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Navoneel Ghosh

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017GHOS03

Navoneel Ghosh has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.24, set at Cubing ATMOSphere 2024, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 577th in India. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since July 2017, he has put 555 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.80 in July 2017 to 9.24, a 42% improvement. Navoneel has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.24
signature single · Cubing ATMOSphere 2024
555
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.2412.68
top 5.4%577 / 20,018
2×22.163.29
top 5.9%455 / 12,146
4×434.4938.10
top 6.3%168 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed16.4422.16
top 11.2%366 / 4,516
Skewb4.1713.89
top 12.1%319 / 3,524
5×51:22.641:35.01
top 21.3%234 / 1,525
Pyraminx7.5613.09
top 32.6%2,059 / 8,934
Megaminx1:54.812:15.30
top 43.1%482 / 1,443
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves49.67
top 44.7%203 / 600
6×63:30.053:43.07
top 54.7%256 / 531

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

Gujarat Cube Days 2017: 15.80i.Cube Open 2017: 14.72Cube Fiesta Surat 2018: 13.34Caarn Ahmedabad Cube Open 2018: 11.09DA-IICT Open 2018: 11.88Indian Nationals 2019: 12.59PDPU Open 2019: 11.94Varsha Ritu Cube Open 2022: 10.29Cubing ATMOSphere 2022: 10.51Cubing ATMOSphere 2023: 11.13Cubing ATMOSphere 2024: 9.24Bangalore Cube Open 2025: 9.72M5 Summer Open A Bengaluru 2025: 11.19Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2026: 12.359.2415.8022 Jul 201725 Apr 2026

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 1.24 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.