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Prabu Karthiek
3×3 · top 8.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022KART02
Prabu Karthiek has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.42, set at SSN Cube Challenge 2025, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 997th in India. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since March 2022, he has put 467 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Prabu has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% 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 | 10.42 | 12.06 | top 8.8% | 997 / 20,146 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.45 | 22.87 | top 9.1% | 301 / 4,534 | |
| 2×2 | 2.60 | 4.47 | top 10.0% | 820 / 12,225 | |
| 4×4 | 42.55 | 51.69 | top 15.2% | 420 / 4,220 | |
| Megaminx | 1:39.86 | 1:52.11 | top 34.7% | 372 / 1,458 | |
| 5×5 | 1:42.53 | 1:48.37 | top 37.3% | 469 / 1,537 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.52 | 12.66 | top 49.2% | 3,270 / 8,971 | |
| 6×6 | 4:07.02 | 4:23.02 | top 67.9% | 343 / 537 | |
| 7×7 | 7:32.42 | — | early days — 1 solve | 307 / 365 |
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
- 15 Nov 2025Three personal bests in one day at SSN Cube Challenge 2025.
- 12 Mar 2022First competition: SSN Cube Open 2022. A 11.07 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Indian Elite Championship 2026 · 2 Oct 2026
- Cubing at Sri Eshwar Coimbatore 2026 · 26 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at Vivira B 2026 · 10 May 2026
- Kalanjiam Cubing Challenge 2025 · 28 Dec 2025
- SSN Cube Challenge 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- VR Bengaluru Cube Open A 2025 · 26 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Big N Blind Bangalore July 2025 · 12 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Galleria Bangalore Cube Open B 2025 · 29 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024 · 15 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bangalore Cube Fest C 2024 · 30 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Salem Summer Open 2024 · 11 May 2024
- Northern Lights Coimbatore Cube Open 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- KSRCT Cube Open 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Thoothukudi Cube Open 2022 · 9 Oct 2022
- Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022 · 31 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- 1st Salem Open 2022 · 26 Jun 2022
- SSN Cube Open 2022 · 12 Mar 2022
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.
- Arun Kannan — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
- Muhammad Rayyan — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Mohamed Bilal — met in 61 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
Targets move as he improves.