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Prakhyat Sandeep Padiyar

4×4 · top 3.7% of 83,917 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022PADI01

Prakhyat Sandeep Padiyar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 31.37, set at Republic Cube Open BLR 2025, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in India. Until May 2011, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since June 2022, he has put 1,407 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 4×4 best has come down from 52.67 in June 2022 to 31.37, a 40% improvement. Prakhyat has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 3.7% of 83,917 all-time
31.37
signature single · Republic Cube Open BLR 2025
1,407
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
4×431.3736.27
top 3.7%84 / 4,186
3×38.7910.73
top 4.4%431 / 20,018
2×21.993.44
top 4.7%344 / 12,146
Pyraminx3.514.89
top 5.5%312 / 8,934
6×61:50.221:59.09
top 7.2%31 / 531
Megaminx55.141:04.35
top 7.5%59 / 1,443
5×51:04.271:08.43
top 7.9%92 / 1,525
3×3 one-handed15.0417.90
top 8.2%266 / 4,516
7×72:54.242:58.04
top 9.0%33 / 360
Skewb4.355.62
top 13.4%356 / 3,524
Clock8.2311.29
top 16.3%141 / 1,092
Square-120.5120.95
top 29.1%189 / 805
3×3 blindfolded4:24.13—
top 73.3%381 / 598
3×3 Fewest Moves50 moves—
early days — 2 solves436 / 600

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

Nexus Monsoon Open 2022: 52.67Nexus Winter Open 2022: 53.11RVITM Big N Blind 2023: 56.76Mysore Cube Open 2024: 42.68Big N Blind Bangalore April 2024: 46.42Bengaluru Summer 2024: 39.94CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2024: 41.65Side Events Bangalore June 2024: 41.38Big N Blind Bangalore June 2024: 38.26Big n Blind Bangalore July 2024: 38.34MySkool Cube Open BLR Aug 2024: 36.40Puzzling at JHS Aug 2024: 39.20Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024: 35.44Karnataka Cube Championship 2024: 39.63Bangalore Cube Open 2024: 37.51Republic Cube Open BLR 2025: 31.37CubeX Summer Open Bangalore 2025: 35.43South India Cube Championship 2025: 33.39Big N Blind Bengaluru Oct 2025: 32.56Pravega IISc BLR Cube Open 2026: 34.3731.3756.7625 Jun 202217 Jan 2026

Best single per competition, 4×4. 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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.