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Palash Gwalia

3×3 · top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022GWAL01

Palash Gwalia has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.49, set at Ileseum Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.84% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 76th in India. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since June 2022, he has put 1,040 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.24 in June 2022 to 6.49, a 21% improvement. Palash has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time
6.49
signature single · Ileseum Cube Open 2025
1,040
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×36.498.35
top 0.84%76 / 20,018
2×21.232.81
top 1.1%76 / 12,146
4×428.9132.45
top 2.2%55 / 4,186
Pyraminx3.186.13
top 4.3%238 / 8,934
5×51:07.991:11.68
top 10.3%115 / 1,525
Megaminx1:03.771:10.13
top 12.0%101 / 1,443
Clock7.669.88
top 13.6%110 / 1,092
3×3 one-handed17.7425.55
top 14.4%493 / 4,516
Skewb7.0622.25
top 34.1%962 / 3,524
6×63:38.214:17.64
top 58.0%276 / 531
7×78:37.97—
early days — 2 solves332 / 360

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 Pune 2022: 8.24Phoenix Cube Challenge 2022: 7.54IISER Pune Cube Open 2022: 8.94Mumbai Winter Open 2022: 7.54Oculus Cube Open 2023: 7.67IISER Pune Summer Open 2023: 7.79Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 8.12Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 8.25Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 7.53Pune Unscrambled 2023: 7.78Surat Cube Carnival 2024: 7.35IISER Pune Winter Open 2024: 7.75Oculus Cube Open 2024: 7.96Korum Cube Challenge 2024: 6.68Fastest Fingers First Pune 2024: 7.71IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024: 6.99Ileseum Cube Open 2025: 6.49Korum Cube Challenge 2025: 7.43Pune Summer Open 2025: 7.29Pune Cube Carnival 2025: 7.35IISER Pune October Heat 2025: 7.87Pune Spring Open 2026: 7.8124K Glitterati Cube Open 2026: 8.066.498.9412 Jun 202221 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.