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Varun Gudibanda

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016GUDI01

Varun Gudibanda has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.23, set at Clock on the Madison Rocks 2025, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,030th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since January 2016, he has put 594 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.04 in January 2016 to 9.23, a 34% improvement. Varun has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.23
signature single · Clock on the Madison Rocks 2025
594
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2311.34
top 5.4%3,030 / 59,724
2×22.383.39
top 7.8%3,062 / 40,951
4×437.9645.93
top 9.7%1,455 / 19,072
5×51:14.201:18.05
top 14.7%1,136 / 9,401
Megaminx1:10.351:16.97
top 15.8%1,082 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:29.162:23.04
top 22.7%462 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves44.67
top 23.4%507 / 2,040
Square-119.6125.36
top 27.1%1,777 / 6,743
Skewb6.2814.10
top 28.0%4,558 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed24.6929.54
top 33.4%4,380 / 15,683
6×62:45.152:55.99
top 33.5%1,199 / 4,196
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 56:34—
top 34.5%259 / 731
Clock12.4214.51
top 37.0%2,937 / 8,927
7×74:23.394:32.83
top 38.9%1,089 / 3,184
Pyraminx9.9013.61
top 52.2%15,203 / 28,708

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

Music City Winter 2016: 14.04US Nationals 2016: 12.05Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 10.71Buccaneer Bonanza 2019: 10.252x2 in a Madison Lodge 2022: 11.226x6 Still in a Madison Park 2024: 11.104x4 by Four Madison Lakes 2024: 10.51Skewb on the Madison Snow 2025: 10.68Madison Manor Monday 2025: 9.72Clock on the Madison Rocks 2025: 9.23Wisconsin Championship 2025: 9.419.2314.042 Jan 20164 Oct 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.