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Nikhil Apte

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019APTE01

Nikhil Apte has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.17, set at Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 930th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since April 2019, he has put 508 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.46 in April 2019 to 7.17, a 69% improvement. Nikhil has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.17
signature single · Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025
508
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.178.74
top 1.5%930 / 59,724
4×437.2644.78
top 9.0%1,345 / 19,072
2×22.574.69
top 9.6%3,790 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed15.8418.82
top 9.9%1,307 / 15,683
5×51:52.542:08.55
top 44.4%3,642 / 9,401
Pyraminx9.2115.69
top 46.7%13,430 / 28,708

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

VES Cube Open 2019: 23.46DSK Pune Cube Open 2019: 25.62Westview Winter B 2021: 11.68San Diego Spring 2022: 9.25Geffen Spring 2022: 9.51Bay Area Speedcubin' 34 - San Ramon 2022: 9.76Irvine Summer 2022: 8.34Marshall Cubing September 2022: 7.66WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.36San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 7.30Chula Vista Winter 2023: 8.25Oak Valley Winter B 2023: 8.54A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 9.08Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 7.72UCSD Summer 2023: 7.54Corona Summer 2023: 8.59Irvine Fall 2023: 8.75Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 7.62UCSD Winter 2024: 8.15Catalina Cube Mixer 2024: 8.45CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 8.00Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 7.177.1725.6228 Apr 201930 Mar 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 7.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.