People · India
Nithish Raju
3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016RAJU03
Nithish Raju has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.11, set at Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 543rd in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since November 2016, he has put 388 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.04 in November 2016 to 9.11, a 70% improvement. Nithish has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.11 | 11.15 | top 5.1% | 543 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 2.58 | 3.93 | top 9.7% | 785 / 12,146 | |
| Skewb | 3.84 | 5.30 | top 9.8% | 252 / 3,524 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.43 | 7.84 | top 9.9% | 562 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.79 | 27.60 | top 22.7% | 817 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 1:20.73 | 1:35.41 | top 56.5% | 1,939 / 4,186 | |
| Clock | 23.76 | 36.38 | top 74.2% | 700 / 1,092 | |
| Square-1 | 49.04 | 1:06.02 | top 75.2% | 538 / 805 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 4:44.71 | — | early days — 1 solve | 406 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.11 at Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025.
- 6 May 2023Five personal bests in one day at Cubing at Punnamada 2023.
- 23 Feb 2019Four personal bests in one day at Daksh Cube Open 2019.
- 14 Jul 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.97 at Virudhunagar KCET Cube Open 2018.
- 14 Jul 2018Four personal bests in one day at Virudhunagar KCET Cube Open 2018.
- 7 Oct 2017First sub-20 3×3: 15.87 at NIT Trichy Open 2017.
Competitions
- Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- mcubes Cube Open 2023 · 29 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at Punnamada 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- VSVN Cube Open 2019 · 17 Nov 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Chennai Cube Open 2019 · 25 Aug 2019
- Pragyan Cube Open 2019 · 17 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Daksh Cube Open 2019 · 23 Feb 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- VDCA Winter Open 2019 · 13 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Cochin Monsoon Open 2018 · 11 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Virudhunagar KCET Cube Open 2018 · 14 Jul 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- NIT Trichy Open 2017 · 7 Oct 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Ban Parity Open 2017 · 8 Apr 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Shaastra Cube Open 2017 · 31 Dec 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Montfort Championship 2016 · 26 Nov 2016
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.
- Vani Muthukrishnan — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
- Saravanan Gowthaman — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Rahul Venkatesan — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
Targets move as he improves.