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Shivaan Harichander

3×3 · top 0.54% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016HARI06

Shivaan Harichander has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.08, set at CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025, puts him in the top 0.54% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in South Africa. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since November 2016, he has put 1,418 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.85 in November 2016 to 6.08, a 56% improvement. Shivaan has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.54% of 288,433 all-time
6.08
signature single · CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025
1,418
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×36.087.52
top 0.54%6 / 2,187
4×427.8933.09
top 1.8%7 / 495
3×3 one-handed11.4114.19
top 2.3%7 / 473
2×21.602.56
top 2.6%23 / 1,525
Megaminx47.5554.37
top 4.1%6 / 268
Pyraminx3.285.53
top 4.6%25 / 958
Square-19.2416.27
top 4.8%5 / 121
5×51:03.451:06.82
top 7.6%12 / 225
Clock8.8410.04
top 19.0%24 / 153
Skewb6.8911.80
top 32.9%120 / 444
6×62:48.733:02.42
top 35.4%24 / 87

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

Johannesburg 2016: 13.85Gauteng Winter 2017: 10.60Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 8.09Big 'n Weird Pretoria 2017: 10.60Gauteng Autumn 2018: 8.54Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 9.69Soweto Spring Open 2018: 8.00Gauteng Summer 2019: 9.26Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 7.97Gauteng Autumn 2022: 6.88Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 6.54CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 7.15Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 6.36Just Cube Joburg 2022: 7.07Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2022: 6.81Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 7.26CubingZA National Championship 2023: 6.41Pretoria Spring Afternoon 2023: 6.69Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 6.96Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 7.55Inni-Horie-Fees 2024: 6.22Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025: 7.53CubeCo Coastal Cubing KZN 2025: 6.44CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 6.08CubingZA Nationals 2025: 7.05Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 7.13Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 6.92Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 6.99Cubestuff Centurion Q1 2026: 7.18Cubestuff Grand Challenge - The Leonardo 2026: 7.49Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 6.96Farrarmere Full Speed 2026: 6.166.0813.8527 Nov 201622 Aug 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 — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.