People · India
Sharath Karthikeyan
3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022KART07
Sharath Karthikeyan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.55, set at Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2022, he has put 75 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Sharath has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 | 8.55 | 11.64 | top 3.8% | 381 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 2.88 | 4.41 | top 12.9% | 1,063 / 12,146 | |
| 4×4 | 51.25 | 55.13 | top 26.3% | 779 / 4,186 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.67 | 27.22 | top 30.6% | 1,125 / 4,516 |
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
- 26 Jun 2022First competition: 1st Salem Open 2022. A 9.21 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SSN Cube Sunday 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Saturday in SSN 2022 · 17 Dec 2022
- KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022 · 31 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- 1st Salem Open 2022 · 26 Jun 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.
- Mohamed Arif — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Mohamed Bilal — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Sujai Shakthivel — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
Targets move as he improves.