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Pranav Kulkarni

4×4 · top 0.27% of 85,040 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017KULK10

Pranav Kulkarni has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 22.56, set at Florida Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in the United States. Until August 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since July 2017, he has put 1,626 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.61 in July 2017 to 6.23, a 51% improvement. Pranav has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.27% of 85,040 all-time
22.56
signature single · Florida Championship 2026
1,626
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×422.5628.21
top 0.27%47 / 19,354
3×36.237.72
top 0.64%430 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed10.3214.49
top 1.3%208 / 15,900
5×550.8753.74
top 2.0%159 / 9,537
Pyraminx2.874.87
top 3.2%867 / 29,168
Skewb2.897.32
top 4.5%708 / 19,164
2×22.053.33
top 5.1%2,080 / 41,674
6×61:54.031:57.49
top 8.8%312 / 4,262
Clock7.8010.81
top 14.1%1,107 / 9,172
Megaminx1:10.921:20.23
top 16.2%1,124 / 8,026
7×73:27.383:39.48
top 18.9%539 / 3,236
Square-118.5929.06
top 24.8%1,654 / 6,846
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves39.33
top 30.1%661 / 2,059
3×3 blindfolded15:08.00—
early days — 2 solves2,130 / 2,128

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 Knights 2017: 12.61Classic City 4 Charity 2017: 10.15STEM Educ8 2018: 10.83Indialantic Open 2018: 9.59Lion Pride 2019: 6.70Florida 2019: 8.02mcubes Open 2019: 9.25Florida Fall Fest 2019: 7.87FSUbers 3.0 2022: 8.54Pegasus 2023: 7.10Cubing Knights IV 2023: 6.72Jacksonville Winter 2023: 7.96Wiltshire December 2023: 7.44FSUbers 5.0 2024: 7.53Miami Spring 2024: 6.83Calicut Cubing Conquest 2024: 6.86FSUbers 7.0 2024: 7.89St. Augustine 2024: 7.13Barbados 2025: 7.82FSUbers 8.0 2025: 7.52CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 7.30Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025: 7.19Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 6.57FSUbers 10.0 2025: 6.72FSUbers 11.0 2026: 6.23Florida Championship 2026: 7.266.2312.6129 Jul 20175 Sep 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.

  • Sean Hartman — met in 223 rounds, finished ahead 37 times
  • Daniel Porter — met in 210 rounds, finished ahead 111 times
  • Noah Swor — met in 200 rounds, finished ahead 25 times

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 2.56 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.