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Sujai Shakthivel

2×2 · top 1.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018SHAK02

Sujai Shakthivel has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.22, set at VIT Cube Open 2024, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 70th in India. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 60 competitions since February 2018, he has put 2,490 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.64 in February 2018 to 8.04, a 61% improvement. Sujai has entered 60 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.1% of 186,767 all-time
1.22
signature single · VIT Cube Open 2024
2,490
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×21.222.97
top 1.1%70 / 12,146
3×3 one-handed11.3513.86
top 2.2%63 / 4,516
3×38.049.72
top 2.9%265 / 20,018
Megaminx50.0459.80
top 5.1%39 / 1,443
4×433.7237.81
top 5.6%144 / 4,186
Pyraminx3.626.69
top 6.0%340 / 8,934
5×51:01.621:05.68
top 6.4%66 / 1,525
7×72:46.482:51.88
top 6.9%24 / 360
6×61:49.731:55.46
top 7.1%30 / 531
Skewb4.1912.41
top 12.2%323 / 3,524
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves34.33
top 17.4%56 / 600
Clock13.9416.92
top 43.6%366 / 1,092
3×3 blindfolded3:08.524:56.58
top 54.8%276 / 598
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 15:44—
early days — 2 solves108 / 168

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

CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 20.64Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 18.60SRM Cube Open 2018: 16.23Virudhunagar KCET Cube Open 2018: 10.70Gravitas Cube Open 2018: 10.67Bengaluru Winter Open 2018: 11.37VDCA Winter Open 2019: 12.32CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2019: 11.22Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 9.32Pragyan Cube Open 2019: 10.52Bengaluru Summer Open 2019: 9.76Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 9.55mcubes Open 2019: 10.57Chennai Cube Open 2019: 8.85SRM Cube Open 2019: 9.88VSVN Cube Open 2019: 10.93C3 Cup Finale 2019: 8.94CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 9.74Cubing Returns Bengaluru 2022: 9.241st Salem Open 2022: 9.41KCT Matrix Cube Open 2022: 10.30Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022: 9.92Thoothukudi Cube Open 2022: 9.31Amrita Silence Open 2022: 9.78KSRCT Cube Open 2022: 8.67Cubing Sunday in SSN 2022: 10.08Chennai Cubing Club Meetup 2023: 9.71CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 9.28MCC Cube Open 2023: 8.71Northern Lights Coimbatore Cube Open 2023: 8.61Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 8.04Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023: 8.84NIT Trichy Cube Open 2023: 8.10CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 8.55Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024: 8.27VIT Cube Open 2024: 8.88Tamil Nadu Cube Challenge 2024: 8.49Calicut Cubing Conquest 2024: 8.16MySkool Cube Open BLR Aug 2024: 9.42Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024: 9.17VIT Cube Challenge B 2024: 8.15Bangalore Cube Open 2024: 9.85Pragyan Cube Open 2025: 8.38Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025: 9.31Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025: 9.23Amrita Cube Open 2025: 8.67VIT Cube Open 2025: 8.09VR Bengaluru Cube Open B 2025: 9.31Kalanjiam Cubing Challenge 2025: 9.31Cubing at Spencer Plaza 2026: 9.46Cubing at Vivira B 2026: 10.06Rockfort City Cubing Challenge 2026: 8.938.0420.643 Feb 201813 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.