People · India
Samay Saini
3×3 · top 4.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015SAIN02
Samay Saini has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.88, set at Howrah Cube Open 2022, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 469th in India. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since June 2015, he has put 758 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 54.79 in June 2015 to 8.88, an 84% improvement. Samay has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 8.88 | 11.25 | top 4.6% | 469 / 20,146 | |
| 2×2 | 2.22 | 3.94 | top 6.4% | 507 / 12,225 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.30 | 8.22 | top 15.1% | 887 / 8,971 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.41 | 23.50 | top 16.3% | 557 / 4,534 | |
| Square-1 | 15.62 | 20.77 | top 17.9% | 118 / 813 | |
| 4×4 | 46.91 | 51.14 | top 20.8% | 606 / 4,220 | |
| Skewb | 7.94 | 11.94 | top 40.9% | 1,154 / 3,548 | |
| 5×5 | 1:47.77 | 1:52.36 | top 41.2% | 524 / 1,537 | |
| Megaminx | 2:09.45 | 2:18.96 | top 51.1% | 604 / 1,458 | |
| 6×6 | 4:38.47 | 4:55.47 | early days — 3 solves | 395 / 537 | |
| 7×7 | 7:22.22 | 7:45.23 | early days — 3 solves | 302 / 365 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 10:30.00 | — | early days — 1 solve | 605 / 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
- 4 Sep 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.88 at Howrah Cube Open 2022.
- 9 Nov 2019Three personal bests in one day at City of Joy Open 2019.
- 28 Sep 2019Three personal bests in one day at IISERK Cube Open 2019.
- 9 Feb 2019Four personal bests in one day at IISERK Spring Open 2019.
- 9 Dec 2018Four personal bests in one day at Eden Court Winter Open 2018.
- 6 Oct 2018Five personal bests in one day at Enginerds Cube Open 2018.
Competitions
- Synocubix Gandhinagar 2026 · 28 Feb 2026
- SVNIT Cube Open 2026 · 10 Jan 2026
- Howrah Cube Open 2024 · 11 May 2024
- Surat Cubing Sprint 2023 · 6 Aug 2023
- Cube Fiesta Surat 2023 · 22 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Returns IISER Kolkata 2022 · 25 Sep 2022
- Howrah Cube Open 2022 · 4 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- City of Joy Open 2019 · 9 Nov 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- IISERK Cube Open 2019 · 28 Sep 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- IISERK Spring Open 2019 · 9 Feb 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Eden Court Winter Open 2018 · 9 Dec 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Enginerds Cube Open 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- CubeHub 2.0 Open 2018 · 18 Aug 2018 — 9 personal bests set
- City of Joy Open 2018 · 29 Apr 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Inquivesta Cube Open 2018 · 3 Feb 2018 — 7 personal bests set
- CubeHub Open 2017 · 11 Nov 2017 — 6 personal bests set
- Akash Open 2015 · 27 Jun 2015
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.
- Anunak Roy — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead twice · head to head
- Rik Ganguli Biswas — met in 70 rounds, finished ahead 21 times · head to head
- Ankan Das — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 45 times · head to head
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
Targets move as he improves.