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Nipun Das

3×3 one-handed · top 0.037% of 73,695 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017DASN01

Nipun Das has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 6.61, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.037% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in the United States. Until August 2022, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since March 2017, he has put 970 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.59 in March 2017 to 6.41, an 82% improvement. Nipun has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.037% of 73,695 all-time
6.61
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
970
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed6.6110.82
top 0.037%7 / 15,683
3×36.418.15
top 0.78%501 / 59,724
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves32.00
top 3.0%81 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded25.52—
top 3.1%60 / 2,092
4×430.7635.01
top 3.3%531 / 19,072
2×21.802.86
top 3.6%1,413 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.484.83
top 5.4%1,404 / 28,708
5×51:03.351:10.01
top 7.4%584 / 9,401
Square-112.7715.86
top 11.4%792 / 6,743
Skewb4.086.66
top 11.4%1,768 / 18,907
Megaminx1:06.221:17.69
top 13.4%913 / 7,841
6×62:12.302:27.20
top 16.5%588 / 4,196
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 12 cubes · 51:56—
early days — 2 solves117 / 731
7×74:08.974:22.59
top 34.0%952 / 3,184
Clock14.0215.49
top 43.9%3,528 / 8,927

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

Qualifornia 2017: 35.59OCSEF Open 2017: 27.12UCSD Summer 2017: 19.27Nisei Week 2017: 17.33TF3I San Diego 2017: 13.03Irvine Winter 2018: 13.25Thanks for the InFive 2018: 12.17Nisei Week 2018: 12.92UCSD Winter 2019: 11.51San Diego Summer 2019: 9.39UCSD Winter 2020: 9.53Westview Winter A 2021: 6.41San Diego Spring 2022: 7.60Circle City Summer 2022: 8.01Circle City Supercharged 2022: 8.14San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 8.26Cal Poly SLO Winter 2023: 8.43Cal Poly SLO Spring 2023: 7.98Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 7.83Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 7.96UCSD Summer 2023: 6.99Corona Summer 2023: 6.99UCSD Winter 2023: 8.02Don't Turn SLOw Spring 2024: 7.73CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 7.65UCSD Fall 2024: 7.27Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.47UCSB Favorites 2025: 7.12Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 6.906.4135.5925 Mar 201725 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.