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Nayan Sai Janumpally

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024JANU01

Nayan Sai Janumpally has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.13, set at NOLA Cube Fest 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 895th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2024, he has put 872 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.68 in January 2024 to 7.13, a 79% improvement. Nayan has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.13
signature single · NOLA Cube Fest 2026
872
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.138.79
top 1.5%895 / 59,724
2×21.462.43
top 2.0%793 / 40,951
Skewb2.357.09
top 2.4%352 / 18,907
Pyraminx3.424.88
top 5.2%1,347 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.6623.29
top 9.5%1,252 / 15,683
4×438.8445.34
top 10.8%1,596 / 19,072
Clock9.0310.66
top 20.1%1,547 / 8,927
Megaminx1:21.421:33.17
top 22.8%1,564 / 7,841
5×51:32.371:37.93
top 29.2%2,301 / 9,401
6×64:10.524:18.73
top 68.9%2,695 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves57 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,859 / 2,040

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

Baton Rouge Winter 2024: 33.68Red Stick Spring 2024: 16.45Louisiana Championship 2024: 15.25Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 14.48Cajun Cube Clash 2024: 15.36Fleur-de-Lis Fall LA 2024: 12.33Texas Championship 2024: 10.46Mississippi Championship 2025: 10.00Cube Against Cancer New Orleans 2025: 9.63South East Louisiana Open 2025: 9.84Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025: 7.45DFW Cubing Summer 2025: 8.57CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 8.60Louisiana Mega Two Day 2025: 8.77Cajun Cube Clash 2025: 9.13Baton Rouge Winter 2026: 8.09NOLA Cube Fest 2026: 7.13Cubalaya LA 2026: 7.667.1333.685 Jan 202425 Jul 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.

  • Ordway Persyn — met in 134 rounds, finished ahead 45 times
  • Seth Talbot — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
  • RJ Gohn — met in 114 rounds, finished ahead 24 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.13 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.