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Sukesh Kumar

3×3 · top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017KUMA30

Sukesh Kumar has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.79, set at M5 Summer Open B Bengaluru 2025, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 735th in India. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 80 competitions since July 2017, he has put 2,559 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.93 in July 2017 to 9.79, a 65% improvement. Sukesh has entered 80 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.79
signature single · M5 Summer Open B Bengaluru 2025
2,559
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×39.7913.73
top 6.9%735 / 20,018
3×3 blindfolded41.211:24.96
top 7.2%20 / 598
2×22.434.98
top 8.2%664 / 12,146
4×444.2252.29
top 17.3%478 / 4,186
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 10 cubes · 55:30—
top 17.6%17 / 168
3×3 one-handed19.0425.66
top 17.9%621 / 4,516
Megaminx1:16.331:29.52
top 19.5%182 / 1,443
Clock9.0010.24
top 20.0%171 / 1,092
Pyraminx6.249.88
top 21.8%1,317 / 8,934
4×4 blindfolded5:00.027:08.80
top 21.8%8 / 69
5×5 blindfolded10:57.0019:26.00
top 25.0%8 / 31
5×51:29.781:40.75
top 27.1%320 / 1,525
Skewb7.458.88
top 37.1%1,047 / 3,524
7×74:20.104:36.53
top 37.7%111 / 360
6×62:56.643:09.29
top 39.4%163 / 531
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves52.33
top 40.9%179 / 600
Square-129.3539.84
top 48.2%335 / 805

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

SSN Cube Open 2017: 27.93Indian Cube Challenge 2017: 27.61APJ BLD Open 2017: 21.46CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 26.42Aboard the Pyraminx Train 2018: 25.36Anaadyanta Cube Open 2018: 22.64Oakridge Cube Open - April 2018: 26.44Bengaluru Championship 2018: 16.82Bangalore Open 2018: 22.66Bengaluru Winter Open 2018: 22.08Shaastra Cube Open 2019: 16.54Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 21.65Anaadyanta Cube Open 2019: 17.42Indian Nationals 2019: 21.32Bengaluru Cool Down 2019: 15.90Forum Monsoon Open 2019: 17.78SSN Cube Open 2019: 20.90Cubing ATMOSphere 2019: 18.97CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 16.17SSN Cube Open 2022: 14.17Cubing Returns Bengaluru 2022: 15.54Hyderabad Summer Open 2022: 16.05DSL Cube Open 2022: 13.80Nexus Monsoon Open 2022: 14.86Varsha Ritu Cube Open 2022: 15.32DSK Cube Open 2023: 15.34Cube Fiesta Surat 2023: 13.19IISER-K Spring Open 2023: 15.74Cubing at Punnamada 2023: 15.80Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 10.82Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Sunday 2023: 13.82Bangalore Cube Open July 2023: 14.17Mangalore Cube Open 2023: 14.09Mysore Cube Open 2023: 14.38Vadodara Winter Open 2023: 14.16Indian Nationals 2023: 13.63DC Winter Open 2024: 11.86Mysore Cube Open 2024: 11.84Big N Blind Bangalore March 2024: 15.82Bangalore Newcomers 2024: 14.30Bangalore Cube Fest A 2024: 13.21mcubes Alleppey Open 2024: 13.51Puzzling at JHS Aug 2024: 11.45Trivandrum Cube Open 2025: 12.85M5 Summer Open B Bengaluru 2025: 9.79Bangalore Mini July 2025: 12.56South India Cube Championship 2025: 15.44Colombo CubeCon 2025: 13.64M5 Open A Bengaluru 2025: 13.04RVITM CubeVerse 2025: 13.15MoT Cube Open 2026: 13.66Oakridge Independence Cube Open 2026: 14.209.7927.9328 Jul 201715 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.79 away.
  • A sub-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 1.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.