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Thamaneeswar Sathesh Kumar

3×3 · top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022KUMA30

Thamaneeswar Sathesh Kumar has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.99, set at Cincinnati Speedsolving 2026, puts him in the top 0.48% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in India. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since August 2022, he has put 2,846 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.14 in August 2022 to 5.99, a 58% improvement. Thamaneeswar has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.48% of 284,439 all-time
5.99
signature single · Cincinnati Speedsolving 2026
2,846
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×35.997.44
top 0.48%39 / 20,018
2×20.971.48
top 0.5%28 / 12,146
4×424.2131.00
top 0.54%10 / 4,186
Square-15.718.89
top 0.62%1 / 805
Skewb1.852.97
top 1.0%20 / 3,524
Pyraminx1.993.44
top 1.1%51 / 8,934
Clock3.624.28
top 1.7%12 / 1,092
3×3 one-handed12.1715.86
top 3.2%98 / 4,516
Megaminx45.8053.32
top 3.4%22 / 1,443
5×51:01.041:04.00
top 6.1%62 / 1,525
6×61:54.972:02.23
top 9.1%41 / 531
7×73:01.243:17.30
top 10.9%39 / 360

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

CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 14.14Bluegrass Bash 2023: 10.35Ohio State Spring Scarlet 2023: 10.26NA Stadium Series - Cleveland 2023: 9.67Little Giant Open 2023: 7.82Flag City Summer 2023: 9.83Fort Wayne Favorites 2023: 9.71CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 7.75Cubing in Campbellsville 2023: 9.24The Core of Hobart 2023: 8.01BHT Pyraminx Bash 2024: 8.72Bloomington Open 2024: 7.88Circle City Cubing 2024: 8.04Minxville Indiana 2024: 8.11Trains on Main La Grange 2024: 7.56Northern Kentucky 2024: 7.62Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.99Gem City: The Birthplace of Aviation OH 2024: 6.73CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 8.30WonderLand Education West Lafayette Fall 2024: 6.40Swoop in and Solve Oxford 2024: 7.38Indiana Championship 2024: 7.20Don't Pop Preble 2024: 7.65Ohio State Winter 2025: 7.26Cincinnati Speed Solving 2025: 7.56Southern Indiana Qualifier 2025: 7.34South Bend Scramble 2025: 7.12Preble Spring 2025: 7.58Northern Kentucky 2025: 7.01Fun in Muncie 2025: 6.56Minxville Indiana 2025: 7.45Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.20CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 6.39Cubing in Terredise 2025: 7.40Hancock County Summer 2025: 6.17Prebleminxing 2025: 6.84Cincinnati Cube Challenge 2025: 6.92Best in West Lafayette 2025: 6.52Ohio Championship 2025: 7.01Cincinnati Speedsolving 2026: 5.99Brown County Blitz 2026: 6.33National Trail Open OH 2026: 7.28Hancock County Spring 2026: 6.66CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 6.48Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.094x4 Off US-40 IL 2026: 6.445.9914.1419 Aug 202229 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.