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Varad Mandar Gosavi
3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016GOSA02
Varad Mandar Gosavi has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.32, set at IISER Pune Cube Open 2019, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 593rd in India. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since October 2016, he has put 439 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.33 in October 2016 to 9.32, a 76% improvement. Varad has entered 18 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 | 9.32 | 12.87 | top 5.6% | 593 / 20,018 | |
| Skewb | 3.30 | 5.57 | top 6.6% | 159 / 3,524 | |
| 2×2 | 2.57 | 3.45 | top 9.6% | 776 / 12,146 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.51 | 7.26 | top 10.3% | 589 / 8,934 | |
| Clock | 12.17 | 16.02 | top 35.8% | 306 / 1,092 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 26.97 | 31.52 | top 39.3% | 1,432 / 4,516 | |
| 4×4 | 1:08.03 | 1:16.54 | top 44.9% | 1,471 / 4,186 |
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
- 17 Mar 2019First sub-10 3×3: 9.32 at IISER Pune Cube Open 2019.
- 28 Dec 2018Four personal bests in one day at VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018.
- 26 Dec 2017Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017.
- 1 Sep 2017First sub-15 3×3: 13.30 at SCMU 2017.
- 20 Aug 2017Five personal bests in one day at Cerulean 2017.
- 12 May 2017Three personal bests in one day at Indian Nationals 2017.
Competitions
- Pune Cube Carnival 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- DSK Cube Open 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Cube Open 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Returns Pune 2022 · 12 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- DSK Pune Cube Open 2019 · 19 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- IISER Pune Cube Open 2019 · 17 Mar 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Saraswati Open 2019 · 10 Feb 2019
- VJTI Mumbai Cube Open 2018 · 28 Dec 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Pune Cube Open 2018 · 9 Sep 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Phoenix Cube Championship 2018 · 7 Jul 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Indian Nationals 2018 · 25 May 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's Cube Mumbai Open 2017 · 26 Dec 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- SCMU 2017 · 1 Sep 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Cerulean 2017 · 20 Aug 2017 — 5 personal bests set
- Indian Nationals 2017 · 12 May 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Polyhedra Open 2017 · 18 Feb 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubelelo Winter Open 2016 · 22 Dec 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's Cube Pune Open 2016 · 15 Oct 2016
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.
- Nikhil Soares — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Somya Srivastava — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 62 times
- Ansh Iyer — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
- A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
Targets move as he improves.