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Thirumugilan Tamilselvan

2×2 · top 1.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022TAMI02

Thirumugilan Tamilselvan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.39, set at South India Cube Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 121st in India. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since December 2022, he has put 850 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.42 in December 2022 to 8.49, a 51% improvement. Thirumugilan has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.39
signature single · South India Cube Championship 2025
850
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
2×21.393.64
top 1.7%121 / 12,146
3×38.499.97
top 3.7%364 / 20,018
Pyraminx3.245.85
top 4.5%253 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed14.0720.86
top 6.2%195 / 4,516
Skewb3.816.80
top 9.6%249 / 3,524
4×440.2747.61
top 12.4%338 / 4,186
Clock7.548.88
top 13.1%104 / 1,092
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves40.67
top 17.4%56 / 600
3×3 blindfolded1:28.671:47.99
top 22.5%96 / 598
Megaminx1:27.601:37.15
top 26.6%266 / 1,443
5×51:33.651:41.70
top 30.4%359 / 1,525
Square-125.4232.22
top 40.0%277 / 805
6×63:48.844:00.92
top 61.9%295 / 531
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 13:08—
early days — 2 solves102 / 168
7×76:50.87—
early days — 3 solves278 / 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

KSRCT Cube Open 2022: 17.42Nexus Summer Open Bangalore Saturday 2023: 16.33Bangalore Championship 2023: 13.76Bangalore Newcomers 2024: 16.70Karnataka Cube Championship 2024: 11.49Bangalore Cube Open 2024: 10.65Republic Cube Open BLR 2025: 11.23Bangalore Cube Open 2025: 10.01Only 3x3's in Bangalore 2025: 12.07M5 Summer Open B Bengaluru 2025: 10.52Only 3x3's in Academyium Bangalore 2025: 9.33Galleria Bangalore Cube Open A 2025: 11.70South India Cube Championship 2025: 9.13M5 Open B Bengaluru 2025: 9.36RVITM CubeVerse 2025: 9.65Indian Cube Challenge BLR 2026: 8.49Oakridge Independence Cube Open 2026: 9.928.4917.423 Dec 202215 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.