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Nived Anoop

3×3 one-handed · top 0.42% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022ANOO01

Nived Anoop has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.77, set at MySkool Cube Open BLR Aug 2024, puts him in the top 0.42% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in India. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since April 2022, he has put 448 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.97 in April 2022 to 8.15, an 18% improvement. Nived has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.42% of 73,695 all-time
8.77
signature single · MySkool Cube Open BLR Aug 2024
448
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 one-handed8.7713.23
top 0.42%13 / 4,516
3×38.159.46
top 3.1%284 / 20,018
2×21.793.50
top 3.5%270 / 12,146
4×431.7037.06
top 3.9%92 / 4,186
5×51:08.401:24.21
top 10.5%119 / 1,525
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
early days — 2 solves163 / 600
3×3 blindfolded2:52.05
top 50.2%242 / 598
Square-131.2643.42
top 51.7%353 / 805
Skewb10.0815.18
top 55.4%1,588 / 3,524
Megaminx2:36.58
top 64.4%756 / 1,443

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

Cubing Returns Bengaluru 2022: 9.97Nexus Monsoon Open 2022: 12.03Nexus Winter Open 2022: 10.84Cubing Kerala Malabar Open 2023: 8.40Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Sunday 2023: 9.12Bangalore Cube Open July 2023: 8.92Bangalore Championship 2023: 9.04Bangalore Newcomers 2024: 8.53MySkool Cube Open BLR Aug 2024: 9.43M5 Summer Open B Bengaluru 2025: 8.158.1512.0316 Apr 202211 May 2025

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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.