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Shankar Mallya

3×3 · top 53.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015MALL02

Shankar Mallya has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 25.38, set at Big N Blind Bangalore Jan 2024, puts him in the top 53.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,123rd in India. Across 5 competitions since August 2015, he has put 51 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Shankar has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 53.4% of 284,439 all-time
25.38
signature single · Big N Blind Bangalore Jan 2024
51
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×325.3830.42
top 53.4%8,123 / 20,018
2×27.6015.97
top 65.0%6,596 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed1:05.36
top 86.9%3,670 / 4,516
Skewb23.5734.64
top 93.7%3,043 / 3,524
4×42:44.84
early days — 1 solve3,684 / 4,186

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

Brain Studio Cube Open 2015: 26.00Cube On Bengaluru 2016: 31.79IIA Summer Open April 2017: 28.52Big N Blind Bangalore Jan 2024: 25.38Indian Cube Challenge BLR 2026: 27.9925.3831.7929 Aug 201527 Jun 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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.