People · United States
Saankhya Kotha
3×3 one-handed · top 3.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025KOTH05
Saankhya Kotha has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.48, set at Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026, puts her in the top 3.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 546th in the United States. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since May 2025, she has put 338 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 12.07 in May 2025 to 9.87, an 18% improvement. Saankhya has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 one-handed | 12.48 | 19.14 | top 3.6% | 546 / 15,683 | |
| 3×3 | 9.87 | 11.12 | top 7.1% | 3,906 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.10 | 7.73 | top 8.2% | 2,087 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 38.92 | 46.39 | top 10.9% | 1,613 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 4.50 | 6.74 | top 14.5% | 2,254 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 3.36 | 4.74 | top 18.5% | 7,245 / 40,951 | |
| Clock | 8.94 | 9.81 | top 19.7% | 1,506 / 8,927 | |
| 5×5 | 1:27.71 | 1:40.45 | top 25.5% | 1,989 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 2:58.22 | 3:12.83 | top 40.2% | 1,463 / 4,196 | |
| Megaminx | 1:53.39 | 2:11.46 | top 42.3% | 3,073 / 7,841 | |
| 7×7 | 7:22.62 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,652 / 3,184 |
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
- 27 Jun 2026First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026.
- 27 Jun 2026Eight personal bests in one day at Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026.
- 8 Mar 2026Five personal bests in one day at NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026.
- 8 Nov 2025Four personal bests in one day at Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2025.
- 7 Sep 2025Four personal bests in one day at Concord Summer 2025.
- 9 Aug 2025Four personal bests in one day at Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025.
Competitions
- Wolfpack Wednesday NC I 2026 · 19 Aug 2026
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026 · 27 Jun 2026 — 8 personal bests set
- Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026 · 8 Mar 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- NxN Nonsense NC 2026 · 22 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- NCSU Wolfpack 2025 · 19 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Concord Summer 2025 · 7 Sep 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Fort Payne Summer 2025 · 2 Aug 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- North Carolina Championship 2025 · 24 May 2025
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 her.
- Nathan Smith — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 31 times
- Katie Hull — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Justin Barker — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
Targets move as she improves.