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Ved Nair

3×3 · top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023NAIR04

Ved Nair has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.19, set at Pune Cube Carnival 2024, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 898th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2023, he has put 219 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.76 in May 2023 to 10.19, a 39% improvement. Ved has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.19
signature single · Pune Cube Carnival 2024
219
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.1913.49
top 8.0%898 / 20,018
2×24.124.85
top 28.0%2,438 / 12,146
4×455.541:08.78
top 31.4%957 / 4,186
Pyraminx8.4113.78
top 39.8%2,550 / 8,934
3×3 one-handed28.6534.66
top 43.5%1,617 / 4,516
5×52:09.752:18.98
top 55.3%716 / 1,525
Skewb10.7114.82
top 59.2%1,725 / 3,524
Megaminx2:35.04
top 63.6%745 / 1,443
Clock28.73
top 82.8%802 / 1,092

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

Pavillion Cube Open 2023: 16.76Pune Cube Fiesta 2023: 13.46Growel's 101 Cube Open 2023: 14.88Pune Unscrambled 2024: 13.64Pune Cube Carnival 2024: 10.19IISER Pune Autumn Open 2024: 12.08Karnataka Cube Open April 2026: 11.7310.1916.7620 May 20235 Apr 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.