People · Canada
Sanay Kothalkar
3×3 · top 2.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022KOTH03
Sanay Kothalkar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.94, set at Mississauga Newcomers B 2025, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 273rd in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2022, he has put 338 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.01 in May 2022 to 7.94, a 64% improvement. Sanay 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 | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.94 | 9.70 | top 2.7% | 273 / 10,502 | |
| 2×2 | 3.09 | 4.65 | top 15.4% | 1,041 / 7,245 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.47 | 8.21 | top 16.3% | 659 / 4,913 | |
| Skewb | 6.24 | 9.73 | top 27.7% | 665 / 2,928 | |
| 4×4 | 53.63 | 55.94 | top 29.2% | 767 / 3,180 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.12 | 28.51 | top 31.9% | 716 / 2,632 | |
| Megaminx | 1:50.65 | 1:58.06 | top 40.9% | 445 / 1,393 | |
| Square-1 | 31.46 | 40.54 | top 52.2% | 470 / 973 | |
| 5×5 | 3:07.19 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,145 / 1,546 |
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
- 9 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.61 at Ontario Championship 2024.
- 9 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Ontario Championship 2024.
- 1 Oct 2023Three personal bests in one day at Pickering Favourites Fall 2023.
- 12 Aug 2023Three personal bests in one day at Appleby Summer A 2023.
- 8 Jul 2023Three personal bests in one day at Michigan 2023.
- 29 Oct 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.26 at Ajax NxNxN 2022.
Competitions
- Brampton Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- Brockport Bolt 2025 · 16 Aug 2025
- Pickering Favourites Spring 2025 · 3 May 2025
- Mississauga Newcomers B 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- A Buffalo Cube Day 2024 · 23 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Mini Morning 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
- Ontario Championship 2024 · 9 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Thornhill Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024
- Pickering Favourites Autumn 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Favourites Fall 2023 · 1 Oct 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Appleby Summer A 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Michigan 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Pickering B 2023 · 19 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Oakville Fall B 2022 · 27 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Ajax NxNxN 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022 · 19 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Oshawa Favourites 2022 · 7 May 2022
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.
- Ryan Wu — met in 36 rounds, never finished ahead
- Burno Chak Kwan Li (李澤堃) — met in 32 rounds, never finished ahead
- Andrew Mao — met in 30 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
Targets move as he improves.