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Saankhya Kotha

3×3 · top 1.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025KOTH05

Saankhya Kotha has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.43, set at Williamsburg Open Fall 2026, puts her in the top 1.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,155th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since May 2025, she has put 464 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 36,406 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 7.43, a 38% improvement. Saankhya has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 288,433 all-time
7.43
signature single · Williamsburg Open Fall 2026
464
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.439.53
top 1.9%1,155 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed12.4817.56
top 3.7%558 / 15,900
Skewb3.405.17
top 7.2%1,132 / 19,164
Pyraminx4.107.73
top 8.2%2,137 / 29,168
4×438.0046.39
top 9.9%1,494 / 19,354
2×23.113.64
top 15.6%6,176 / 41,674
Clock8.949.81
top 19.6%1,529 / 9,172
Megaminx1:23.281:31.57
top 24.0%1,696 / 8,026
5×51:27.711:37.16
top 25.6%2,021 / 9,537
6×62:58.223:12.83
top 40.3%1,487 / 4,262
Square-134.731:05.29
top 58.0%3,876 / 6,846
7×75:26.296:04.16
top 58.8%1,776 / 3,236
3×3 blindfolded4:20.00—
early days — 2 solves1,525 / 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

North Carolina Championship 2025: 12.07Fort Payne Summer 2025: 11.85Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 11.58Concord Summer 2025: 11.88NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 10.37NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 12.30NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 10.58Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 10.95Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026: 9.87Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.08Williamsburg Open Fall 2026: 7.43Soda City Cubing SC 2026: 9.167.4312.3024 May 202526 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as she improves.