People · India
Vaidik Prasal
3×3 · top 3.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017PRAS14
Vaidik Prasal has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.34, set at DSK Cube Open 2023, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 329th in India. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since October 2017, he has put 460 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.92 in October 2017 to 8.34, a 67% improvement. Vaidik has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | India | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.34 | 10.37 | top 3.4% | 329 / 20,146 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.60 | 17.00 | top 9.4% | 309 / 4,534 | |
| 4×4 | 45.38 | 49.58 | top 18.8% | 530 / 4,220 | |
| 2×2 | 3.47 | 5.15 | top 19.9% | 1,711 / 12,225 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.54 | 15.57 | top 32.4% | 2,063 / 8,971 | |
| Square-1 | 23.93 | 29.47 | top 36.8% | 255 / 813 | |
| 5×5 | 2:05.79 | 2:17.12 | top 53.0% | 692 / 1,537 | |
| Megaminx | 3:38.77 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,101 / 1,458 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 29 Oct 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.84 at IISER Pune Cube Open 2022.
- 29 Oct 2022Three personal bests in one day at IISER Pune Cube Open 2022.
- 29 Sep 2018First sub-15 3×3: 12.17 at KJSCE Mumbai Open 2018.
- 18 Feb 2018First sub-20 3×3: 19.41 at Polyhedra Open 2018.
- 28 Oct 2017First competition: Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017. A 24.92 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- IISER Pune October Heat 2026 · 10 Oct 2026
- IISER Pune PARAM Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026
- IISER Pune October Heat 2025 · 5 Oct 2025
- Pune Unscrambled 2025 · 2 Aug 2025
- IISER Pune Summer Open 2025 · 5 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Winter Open 2024 · 13 Jan 2024
- Growel's 101 Cube Open 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pune Cube Fiesta 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pavillion Cube Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Summer Open 2023 · 30 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Oculus Cube Open 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- DSK Cube Open 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- IISER Pune Cube Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing Returns Pune 2022 · 12 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Phoenix Marketcity Cube Challenge 2019 · 10 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- KJSCE Mumbai Open 2018 · 29 Sep 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Polyhedra Open 2018 · 18 Feb 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Avenues Rubik's Cube Open 2017 · 28 Oct 2017
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.
- Shubham Maharana — met in 76 rounds, finished ahead once
- Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
- Pranav Dandgaval — met in 74 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
Targets move as he improves.