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Rishi Kannan
3×3 · top 8.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024KANN05
Rishi Kannan has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.47, set at Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024, puts him in the top 8.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,942nd in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since March 2024, he has put 71 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Rishi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 | 10.47 | 14.49 | top 8.9% | 4,942 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 3.21 | 5.43 | top 16.8% | 6,666 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.58 | 14.37 | top 17.0% | 4,587 / 29,168 | |
| Clock | 20.24 | 23.21 | top 65.4% | 5,743 / 9,172 | |
| Skewb | 13.17 | 17.41 | top 71.4% | 13,658 / 19,164 | |
| 4×4 | 2:10.14 | — | early days — 1 solve | 16,445 / 19,354 |
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
- 30 Mar 2024First competition: Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024. A 10.47 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026 · 2 May 2026
- NxN Nonsense NC 2026 · 22 Feb 2026
- Concord Summer 2025 · 7 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Concord Summer 2024 · 9 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
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.
- Rue Clippinger — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
- Silas Starling — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
- Orion Leavitt-Lytle — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
Targets move as he improves.