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Preetham Samala

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 14.8% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022SAMA01

Preetham Samala has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 30 moves, set at FMC Asia 2025, puts him in the top 14.8% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 41st in India. Across 23 competitions since June 2022, he has put 531 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.11 in June 2022 to 13.62, a 46% improvement. Preetham has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 14.8% of 12,294 all-time
30 moves
signature single · FMC Asia 2025
531
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves35.67
top 14.8%41 / 600
3×313.6216.51
top 19.6%2,468 / 20,018
Skewb5.829.15
top 24.4%670 / 3,524
Pyraminx6.729.47
top 25.6%1,557 / 8,934
2×24.155.25
top 28.4%2,479 / 12,146
4×41:01.901:09.51
top 38.5%1,228 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed28.3240.21
top 42.7%1,581 / 4,516
5×51:54.482:25.31
top 45.6%587 / 1,525
Clock14.9317.97
top 47.7%402 / 1,092
3×3 blindfolded3:31.674:44.56
top 61.4%315 / 598
Megaminx2:37.17—
top 64.7%763 / 1,443
Square-11:07.45—
early days — 2 solves650 / 805
7×79:10.68—
early days — 1 solve340 / 360

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

DSL Cube Open 2022: 25.11DC Open April Sunday 2023: 22.92Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 16.19Ankuram Open Sunday 2023: 17.00DC Winter Open 2024: 17.58Nalsar Cube Open 2024: 13.87Vasavi Cube Open 2024: 17.64DC Open July Hyderabad Sunday 2024: 16.89Telangana Cube Championship 2024: 17.88DC Open Hyderabad 2024: 19.38Nalsar Cube Open C 2025: 16.13AMR Planet Cube Open 2025: 15.52South India Cube Championship 2025: 16.61Twist 'n Turn Hyd Open 2025: 17.87Cubing ATMOSphere 2025: 13.62DC Hyderabad Winter Open 2025: 15.47Twist 'n Turn Hyd Open 2026: 17.5413.6225.1118 Jun 202229 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
  • A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.