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Tanish Saxena

3×3 · top 0.41% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015SAXE01

Tanish Saxena has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.87, set at Indian Nationals 2019, puts him in the top 0.41% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 31st in India. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since February 2015, he has put 573 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.94 in February 2015 to 5.87, a 63% improvement. Tanish has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.41% of 284,439 all-time
5.87
signature single · Indian Nationals 2019
573
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×35.877.41
top 0.41%31 / 20,018
3×3 one-handed9.9613.15
top 1.0%28 / 4,516
2×22.063.29
top 5.2%389 / 12,146

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

MathSoc Open 2015: 15.94National Cubing Region Open 2015: 13.82Delhi Autumn Open 2015: 13.49Plenty o' Parity 2015: 11.94Great Indian Cubeathon 2016: 10.53MathSoc Open 2016: 10.59National Cubing Region Open 2016: 8.48Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2016: 8.79Cubing Complexity 2016: 9.63MathSoc Open 2017: 9.66Delhi Open 2017: 8.79SNU Open 2017: 9.08National Cubing Region Open 2017: 8.07Delhi Cube Splash 2017: 6.10Speedcubing ESYA 2017: 8.09Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2017: 7.94MathSoc Open 2018: 7.79SNU Open 2018: 7.69Delhi Cubing Heat Wave 2018: 6.90Speedcubing ESYA 2018: 7.37Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2018: 7.31MathSoc Open 2019: 7.46Indian Nationals 2019: 5.87SNU Autumn Open 2019: 7.30Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2019: 6.80PB Smashathon Delhi 2019: 7.33Shri Ram Cubing Challenge 2023: 6.76Moksha Cubing 2023: 6.22Speedcubing ESYA 2023: 6.12Delhi Cube Open 2026: 6.675.8715.9421 Feb 201528 Feb 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.