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Sameer Chawla

3×3 · top 0.98% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016CHAW02

Sameer Chawla has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.65, set at River Hill Fall 2023, puts him in the top 0.98% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 618th in the United States. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since June 2016, he has put 1,060 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.43 in June 2016 to 6.65, a 73% improvement. Sameer has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.98% of 284,439 all-time
6.65
signature single · River Hill Fall 2023
1,060
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.658.79
top 0.98%618 / 59,724
4×430.3835.31
top 3.1%497 / 19,072
5×557.041:08.13
top 4.1%342 / 9,401
2×22.113.61
top 5.5%2,199 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed15.6018.92
top 9.4%1,240 / 15,683
Skewb4.328.15
top 13.1%2,037 / 18,907
6×62:06.172:07.39
top 13.8%501 / 4,196
Pyraminx5.407.81
top 15.8%4,153 / 28,708
Megaminx1:14.631:29.40
top 18.4%1,252 / 7,841
7×73:31.333:34.61
top 20.3%573 / 3,184
Square-130.9137.83
top 51.0%3,346 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded8:35.50—
early days — 1 solve2,018 / 2,092

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

Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 24.43Michigan 2016: 19.29Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 14.05Virginia Open Winter 2017: 12.83Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 12.60NovaCube 2017: 11.54Big Cube Bash 2017: 9.64CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.52Severna Park Summer 2017: 9.33Maryland 2017: 9.85Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 9.68River Hill Spring 2018: 10.57Maryland 2018: 9.37CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.90Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 8.56TJHSST Fall 2018: 9.89CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.02WCA World Championship 2019: 8.40CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.73Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 9.50Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 9.39Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 8.43Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 8.61Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 7.84River Hill Fall 2023: 6.65Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 7.77UMBC Winter 2024: 7.89Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 8.86UMBC Fall 2024: 7.59Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 8.57Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 8.30More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 7.93Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 8.43Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 8.576.6524.4318 Jun 201625 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.