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Nishanth Meganathan

Pyraminx · top 0.76% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018MEGA01

Nishanth Meganathan has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.76, set at Pragyan Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.76% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 32nd in India. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since July 2018, he has put 1,225 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.34 in July 2018 to 7.16, a 66% improvement. Nishanth has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.76% of 129,321 all-time
1.76
signature single · Pragyan Cube Open 2025
1,225
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
Pyraminx1.764.32
top 0.76%32 / 8,934
3×37.169.75
top 1.5%134 / 20,018
2×21.423.33
top 1.8%134 / 12,146
4×429.6734.41
top 2.7%65 / 4,186
6×61:34.821:48.37
top 2.8%13 / 531
5×555.571:02.74
top 3.5%33 / 1,525
Square-18.5012.11
top 3.7%18 / 805
3×3 one-handed13.3315.24
top 4.9%149 / 4,516
7×72:37.962:50.38
top 5.1%18 / 360
Skewb3.455.53
top 7.4%183 / 3,524
Megaminx1:04.401:08.73
top 12.3%108 / 1,443
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves39.00
top 14.8%41 / 600
Clock8.0711.76
top 15.5%132 / 1,092
3×3 blindfolded4:32.145:18.24
top 74.8%391 / 598

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

SSN Cube Open 2018: 21.34IIITDM Cube Open 2018: 15.37Gravitas Cube Open 2018: 15.11Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 10.14Tamil Nadu Cube Open Tournament 2022: 10.07CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 8.26MCC Cube Open 2023: 8.35Bangalore Championship 2023: 9.94CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 8.73Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024: 8.52VIT Cube Open 2024: 9.05Salem Summer Open 2024: 8.53Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024: 8.74Pragyan Cube Open 2025: 8.26Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025: 8.78Sanskara Cube Open 2025: 8.50Six Face Cube Run at TRINS 2025: 8.11Bengal Cube Open 2025: 8.56Kalanjiam Cubing Challenge 2025: 8.18Cubing at Spencer Plaza 2026: 7.16Rockfort City Cubing Challenge 2026: 9.087.1621.3428 Jul 201813 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.