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Samay Saini

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 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 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 458th 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; 65% of the 35,811 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.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.88
signature single · Howrah Cube Open 2022
758
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×38.8811.25
top 4.6%458 / 20,018
2×22.223.94
top 6.4%496 / 12,146
Pyraminx5.308.22
top 15.1%883 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed18.4123.50
top 16.2%551 / 4,516
Square-115.6220.77
top 17.8%112 / 805
4×446.9151.14
top 20.7%591 / 4,186
Skewb7.9411.94
top 40.8%1,141 / 3,524
5×51:47.771:52.36
top 41.0%518 / 1,525
Megaminx2:09.452:18.96
top 50.9%592 / 1,443
6×64:38.474:55.47
early days — 3 solves390 / 531
7×77:22.227:45.23
early days — 3 solves298 / 360
3×3 blindfolded10:30.00
early days — 1 solve598 / 598

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

Akash Open 2015: 54.79CubeHub Open 2017: 20.22Inquivesta Cube Open 2018: 14.87City of Joy Open 2018: 15.70CubeHub 2.0 Open 2018: 12.11Enginerds Cube Open 2018: 10.69Eden Court Winter Open 2018: 13.01IISERK Spring Open 2019: 10.72IISERK Cube Open 2019: 11.69City of Joy Open 2019: 10.71Howrah Cube Open 2022: 8.88Cubing Returns IISER Kolkata 2022: 10.20Cube Fiesta Surat 2023: 10.49Surat Cubing Sprint 2023: 9.87Howrah Cube Open 2024: 9.92SVNIT Cube Open 2026: 9.69Synocubix Gandhinagar 2026: 10.718.8854.7927 Jun 201528 Feb 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.