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Nitin Ramasamy Arunagiri Nalini

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022NALI01

Nitin Ramasamy Arunagiri Nalini has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.32, set at Back to Cubing Madras 2025, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 950th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2022, he has put 505 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.57 in June 2022 to 10.32, a 38% improvement. Nitin has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.32
signature single · Back to Cubing Madras 2025
505
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.3212.48
top 8.4%950 / 20,018
2×22.644.24
top 10.3%853 / 12,146
Square-112.5516.65
top 11.0%60 / 805
Skewb4.597.47
top 15.1%412 / 3,524
4×447.1654.21
top 21.0%604 / 4,186
Clock9.4611.73
top 22.3%186 / 1,092
Pyraminx6.588.45
top 24.5%1,499 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed22.8923.87
top 28.5%1,030 / 4,516
Megaminx1:30.521:39.84
top 28.5%284 / 1,443
5×51:34.291:49.07
top 30.9%369 / 1,525
6×63:16.503:47.97
top 48.8%222 / 531
3×3 blindfolded4:03.26—
early days — 3 solves359 / 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

DSL Cube Open 2022: 16.57Nexus Monsoon Open 2022: 20.35Thoothukudi Cube Open 2022: 19.97Cubing Saturday in SSN 2022: 22.76Northern Lights Coimbatore Cube Open 2023: 17.82SSN Cube Sunday 2023: 15.94Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023: 13.08CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 12.34VIT Cube Open 2024: 14.89Back to Cubing Madras 2025: 10.32Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025: 10.58VIT Cube Open 2025: 12.05Kumaraguru Cube Open 2025: 10.97Calicut Cubing Gambit 2026: 13.5510.3222.7618 Jun 20221 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.