People · India
Prem Venkatesh
3×3 · top 3.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022VENK04
Prem Venkatesh has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.19, set at Tramsheds VII: Spring Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 296th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2022, he has put 299 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.54 in June 2022 to 8.19, a 53% improvement. Prem has entered 15 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 | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.19 | 11.75 | top 3.1% | 296 / 20,146 | |
| 2×2 | 3.14 | 5.12 | top 16.0% | 1,342 / 12,225 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.62 | 10.78 | top 17.3% | 1,026 / 8,971 | |
| Skewb | 5.95 | 7.93 | top 25.4% | 719 / 3,548 | |
| 4×4 | 56.66 | 1:12.02 | top 32.8% | 1,025 / 4,220 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.72 | 33.94 | top 43.8% | 1,635 / 4,534 | |
| Megaminx | 2:01.71 | — | top 46.8% | 540 / 1,458 | |
| 5×5 | 3:26.36 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,203 / 1,537 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 7:56.65 | — | early days — 2 solves | 563 / 605 |
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
- 9 Sep 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.81 at Simple Sydney Saturday 2023.
- 9 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Simple Sydney Saturday 2023.
- 28 Aug 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.04 at Sydney Winter Sunday 2022.
- 11 Jun 2022First competition: NSW Open 2022. A 17.54 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tramsheds VII: Spring Saturday 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at The Cube 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- Sydney Spring Sunday 2024 · 17 Nov 2024
- Puzzling Parramatta 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tramsheds II: May Saturday 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kogarah Cube Day Saturday 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing at The Cube 2024 · 6 Jan 2024
- Sydney Summer 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Simple Sydney Saturday 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023 · 16 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Dilly 2023 · 10 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Marrickville Mini May Open 2023 · 21 May 2023
- Marrickville Mini Open AM 2022 · 16 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Sydney Winter Sunday 2022 · 28 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- NSW Open 2022 · 11 Jun 2022
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.
- Caleb Clark — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Michael Adams — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Elias Chong — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
Targets move as he improves.