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Ojas Danekar
3×3 · top 6.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019DANE01
Ojas Danekar has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.68, set at IISER Pune Summer Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 702nd in India. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2019, he has put 104 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.28 in January 2019 to 9.68, a 60% improvement. Ojas has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% 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 | 9.68 | 12.38 | top 6.6% | 702 / 20,018 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.73 | 20.89 | top 17.0% | 585 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 45.07 | 48.66 | top 18.4% | 507 / 4,186 | |
| 2×2 | 3.59 | 4.58 | top 21.3% | 1,844 / 12,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.14 | 12.11 | top 46.0% | 3,022 / 8,934 |
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
- 25 Jun 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.99 at Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022.
- 17 Mar 2019First sub-20 3×3: 14.52 at IISER Pune Cube Open 2019.
- 17 Mar 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.52 at IISER Pune Cube Open 2019.
- 19 Jan 2019First competition: Oculus Cube Open 2019. A 24.28 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- IISER Pune October Heat 2025 · 5 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Summer Open 2025 · 5 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- IISER Pune Winter Open 2024 · 13 Jan 2024
- DSK Cube Open 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022 · 25 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Cube Open 2019 · 17 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Oculus Cube Open 2019 · 19 Jan 2019
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.
- Anay Shrikar — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Shubham Maharana — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Vaidik Prasal — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.68 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 3.73 away.
Targets move as he improves.