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Nikhil Soares

Megaminx · top 0.075% of 34,786 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015SOAR01

Nikhil Soares has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 27.16, set at Waterloo Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.075% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in India. Until March 2022, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 94 competitions since January 2015, he has put 5,744 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 49.50 in January 2015 to 5.36, an 89% improvement. Nikhil has entered 94 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.075% of 34,786 all-time
27.16
signature single · Waterloo Spring 2026
5,744
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Megaminx27.1629.50
top 0.075%1 / 1,443
2×20.661.83
top 0.081%4 / 12,146
3×35.366.63
top 0.2%17 / 20,018
Pyraminx1.652.97
top 0.61%24 / 8,934
Skewb1.703.67
top 0.73%10 / 3,524
3×3 one-handed9.5813.57
top 0.79%16 / 4,516
4×426.6730.36
top 1.2%32 / 4,186
5×553.9359.19
top 3.0%28 / 1,525
Square-19.2811.84
top 4.9%26 / 805
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves27.67
top 5.1%11 / 600
6×61:45.091:53.36
top 5.5%22 / 531
3×3 blindfolded48.0159.36
top 9.3%27 / 598
7×72:56.902:57.52
top 9.7%36 / 360
Clock6.928.75
top 10.6%81 / 1,092
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 10 cubes · 56:42—
top 18.0%18 / 168
4×4 blindfolded8:00.35—
top 43.6%24 / 69
5×5 blindfolded34:07.00—
early days — 3 solves24 / 31

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

Speed Cubing Mumbai Unlimited 2015: 49.50SP Open 2015: 36.01SCMU ICT Open 2015: 35.06SCMU Juhu Open 2015: 17.90SCMU Freedom Open 2015: 14.57SCMU Cognition Open 2015: 13.47SCMU KJSCE Open 2015: 11.59SP Open Mini 2015: 15.58Avenues CUBELELO Open 2015: 14.95SCMU-Pune Fall Open V3.0 2015: 10.85Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2015: 12.60SCMU Open 2016: 13.27SCMU ICT Open 2016: 11.72Indian Nationals 2016: 11.04SCMU 2016: 11.00KJSCE Mumbai Open 2016: 10.72Praxis Open 2016: 11.57Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2016: 10.51Polyhedra Open 2017: 10.63SCMU ICT Open 2017: 10.65Indian Nationals 2017: 8.79Mumbai Monsoon Open 2017: 8.95Cerulean 2017: 9.93SCMU 2017: 9.56Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017: 8.53Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017: 8.47Udaan Rubik's Cube Open 2018: 7.21Polyhedra Open 2018: 8.87RGIT Cube Open 2018: 7.29Versatile Cube Open 2018: 8.62Indian Nationals 2018: 7.20Hotel Cube 2018: 6.62Phoenix Cube Championship 2018: 8.16WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.46Pune Cube Open 2018: 7.38KJSCE Mumbai Open 2018: 7.90VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018: 7.32Oculus Cube Open 2019: 7.69Saraswati Open 2019: 8.24RGIT Cube Open 2019: 8.35IISER Pune Cube Open 2019: 6.69Indian Nationals 2019: 7.49VES Cube Open 2019: 8.00Guwahati Summer Open 2019: 7.91DSK Pune Cube Open 2019: 6.95WCA World Championship 2019: 8.39Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019: 7.39Five Rivers Cube Open 2019: 7.37Cubing ATMOSphere 2019: 7.03Dream City Cube Open 2019: 7.28Oculus Cube Open 2020: 7.81Saraswati Open 2020: 7.08Cubing Returns Pune 2022: 7.39DSL Cube Open 2022: 6.55Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022: 7.00Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 7.58Naticube 2022: 6.78Mumbai Winter Open 2022: 6.42Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 6.63Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 5.46Appleby Summer B 2023: 6.86Ajax 3x3x3 Evening 2023: 6.11CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 6.55Pickering Favourites Autumn 2023: 6.51The Battle of Lexington 2024: 6.20Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 6.45Carleton Place Summer 2024: 6.94Ottawa Summer 2024: 6.95Ontario Championship 2024: 6.71Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 6.90Quick in Quincy 2024: 5.71Wakefield Winter 2024: 6.17Wrap It Up Barrie 2024: 5.36Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 6.55Mississauga Newcomers B 2025: 6.34Western Ontario Winter 2025: 6.47Pickering NxNxN Summer 2025: 6.27Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025: 5.58Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.01Ipswich Fall 2025: 6.06Ottawa 3x3x3 Winter C 2026: 5.61Waterloo Spring 2026: 6.63Pickering Favourites Summer 2026: 6.665.3649.5016 Jan 201514 Jun 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-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 2.16 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.