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Tarak Sai Musunuri

3×3 · top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019MUSU02

Tarak Sai Musunuri has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.19, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 109th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,329 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.63 in January 2019 to 5.19, a 75% improvement. Tarak has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time
5.19
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025
1,329
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.197.04
top 0.16%109 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.7112.74
top 0.86%134 / 15,683
2×21.322.23
top 1.4%589 / 40,951
4×427.3029.95
top 1.5%255 / 19,072
Skewb2.155.04
top 1.8%257 / 18,907
5×51:00.071:11.22
top 5.5%457 / 9,401
Pyraminx3.544.48
top 5.6%1,455 / 28,708
Megaminx1:09.821:20.16
top 15.5%1,059 / 7,841
Square-115.1121.42
top 16.7%1,135 / 6,743
Clock10.7214.08
top 28.7%2,223 / 8,927
6×62:47.303:00.84
top 34.7%1,247 / 4,196
7×75:01.455:21.22
top 51.0%1,486 / 3,184

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

Geethanjali Cube Open 2019: 20.63Cubing For LLS Summer 2019: 17.88Indian Nationals 2019: 14.76Deccan Cube Open July 2019: 16.94Hyderabad Cube Open 2019: 11.14Cubing ATMOSphere 2019: 11.74Hyderabad Summer Open 2022: 9.01Cubing ATMOSphere 2022: 9.06DC Open April Saturday 2023: 8.21Hyderabad Cube Open 2023: 5.50Cubing ATMOSphere 2023: 7.02Indian Nationals 2023: 5.34DC Winter Open 2024: 7.01Vasavi Cube Open 2024: 5.94DC Open July Hyderabad Sunday 2024: 7.92Telangana Cube Championship 2024: 6.20DC Open Feb Hyderabad Sunday 2025: 7.23Nalsar Cube Open A 2025: 7.36AMR Planet Cube Open 2025: 5.86Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.30CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 5.19UIUC Fall 2025: 5.83Illini Cubers Winter 2026: 7.54UIUC Spring 2026: 6.83Illini Cubers Spring 2026: 6.185.1920.6326 Jan 20191 May 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 0.19 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.