People · United States
Pranav Arun
3×3 · top 1.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025ARUN01
Pranav Arun has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.15, set at Apex Algs Again 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 933rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since January 2025, he has put 391 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.39 in January 2025 to 7.15, a 50% improvement. Pranav has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.15 | 9.26 | top 1.5% | 933 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 1.82 | 2.75 | top 3.7% | 1,486 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.72 | 19.87 | top 7.6% | 1,026 / 15,900 | |
| Skewb | 4.57 | 6.74 | top 15.1% | 2,384 / 19,164 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.56 | 7.27 | top 16.9% | 4,546 / 29,168 | |
| 4×4 | 45.81 | 1:01.62 | top 19.4% | 2,978 / 19,354 | |
| Clock | 23.96 | 32.65 | top 74.7% | 6,688 / 9,172 | |
| Square-1 | 54.36 | — | top 79.9% | 5,382 / 6,846 |
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
- 8 Mar 2026Four personal bests in one day at NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026.
- 16 Aug 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.17 at Virginia Championship 2025.
- 16 Aug 2025Six personal bests in one day at Virginia Championship 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025First competition: Charlotte Winter 2025. A 14.41 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Wolfpack Wednesday NC II 2026 · 16 Sep 2026
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Apex Algs Again 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026 · 2 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026 · 8 Mar 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- NxN Nonsense NC 2026 · 22 Feb 2026
- Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026 · 11 Jan 2026
- NCSU Wolfpack 2025 · 19 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Concord Summer 2025 · 7 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Virginia Championship 2025 · 16 Aug 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- North Carolina Championship 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Queen City NC 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Charlotte Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Kavin Rajendran — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- Easan Peacock — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Orion Leavitt-Lytle — met in 69 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
Targets move as he improves.