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Pranav Gadge

3×3 one-handed · top 0.018% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017GADG01

Pranav Gadge has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 6.29, set at Pune Unscrambled 2024, puts him in the top 0.018% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in India. Until August 2022, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since December 2017, he has put 854 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.19 in December 2017 to 5.05, a 69% improvement. Pranav has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.018% of 73,695 all-time
6.29
signature single · Pune Unscrambled 2024
854
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 one-handed6.298.01
top 0.018%1 / 4,516
3×35.056.61
top 0.13%10 / 20,018
2×21.622.58
top 2.7%202 / 12,146
4×436.5640.91
top 8.2%218 / 4,186
Pyraminx4.718.45
top 11.5%658 / 8,934
Skewb7.089.49
top 34.3%967 / 3,524
5×51:41.141:54.67
top 36.2%450 / 1,525
Megaminx3:19.04—
early days — 1 solve997 / 1,443

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

Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017: 16.19Indian Nationals 2018: 11.47VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018: 9.82Oculus Cube Open 2019: 9.20Saraswati Open 2019: 9.20RGIT Cube Open 2019: 9.04Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019: 8.25Oculus Cube Open 2020: 7.55Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 5.66DJ Sanghvi Cube Open 2024: 5.05Oculus Cube Open 2024: 5.82Mumbai City Cube Open 2024: 5.94Pune Unscrambled 2024: 6.11Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2024: 6.51DJSCE Cube Open 2025: 5.21Korum Cube Challenge 2025: 6.21Mumbai Cubing Heat Wave 2025: 6.48Pune Cube Carnival 2025: 5.32Mumbai Twistathon 2025: 6.26IISER Pune October Heat 2025: 5.47Mumbai Cubing Sprint 2025: 5.45Mumbai Cube Fiesta 2026: 6.20Pune Spring Open 2026: 5.99IISER Pune PARAM Open 2026: 6.32Mumbai Summer Cube Fiesta 2026: 5.40Mumbai Twistathon 2026: 5.58Mumbai Monsoon Cube Fiesta 2026: 6.265.0516.1926 Dec 20179 Aug 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 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.