People · United States
Vihaan Cherukuri
3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021CHER06
Vihaan Cherukuri has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.19, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 971st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since November 2021, he has put 243 official solves on the record across two 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 13.81 in November 2021 to 7.19, a 48% improvement. Vihaan has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.19 | 9.44 | top 1.6% | 971 / 60,666 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.54 | 26.80 | top 19.3% | 2,517 / 15,900 |
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
- 31 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.73 at Pretzel Mania Summer 2024.
- 20 Nov 2021First competition: Slow N Steady Fall 2021. A 13.81 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2026 · 10 Oct 2026
- RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026 · 16 May 2026
- New Providence Spring AM 2026 · 18 Apr 2026
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2025 · 2 Nov 2025
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025 · 30 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open B 2025 · 16 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- PBs in Palisades Winter 2025 · 8 Mar 2025
- Rutgers Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2024 · 2 Nov 2024
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2024 · 29 Jun 2024
- Princeton Fall 2023 · 18 Nov 2023
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023
- Newark's On Track 2023 · 26 Aug 2023
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- New York Championship 2022 · 2 Jul 2022
- Florida Spring B 2022 · 12 Mar 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady Fall 2021 · 20 Nov 2021
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.
- Ishan Donavalli — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Dana Yi — met in 33 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ayden Dincher — met in 33 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 4.54 away.
Targets move as he improves.