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Vijay Kishore

3×3 · top 0.34% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2012 · 2012KISH03

Vijay Kishore has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.72, set at Montfort Championship 2016, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25th in India. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 70 competitions since October 2012, he has put 2,398 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.69 in October 2012 to 5.72, a 72% improvement. Vijay has entered 70 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.34% of 284,439 all-time
5.72
signature single · Montfort Championship 2016
2,398
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×35.726.92
top 0.34%25 / 20,018
2×21.363.60
top 1.6%112 / 12,146
4×429.7837.11
top 2.7%68 / 4,186
3×3 one-handed12.2315.15
top 3.3%99 / 4,516
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves35.00
top 9.9%28 / 600
Pyraminx5.5210.64
top 16.6%975 / 8,934
Megaminx1:33.591:56.11
top 30.4%318 / 1,443
5×51:44.771:58.06
top 39.0%494 / 1,525
3×3 blindfolded2:23.443:27.53
top 41.2%192 / 598
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 6 cubes · 56:19—
top 79.9%128 / 168
6×66:23.52—
early days — 1 solve479 / 531

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

Chennai Mathematical Institute Open 2012: 20.69DJ SpeedCubing Open 2012: 17.74Shaastra Cube Open 2013: 16.56Pragyan Cube Open 2013: 13.27CMI Fiesta Open 2013: 14.91Indian Cube Challenge 2013: 12.60VIT Rubik's Challenge 2013: 11.69Shaastra Cube Open 2014: 9.88Indian Cube Challenge 2014: 10.14Indian Nationals 2015: 8.21Brain Studio Cube Open 2015: 8.62REC Cube Challenge 2015: 7.66Cubing ATMOSphere 2015: 8.04Brain Studio Winter Open 2015: 8.32Shaastra Cube Open 2016: 7.83Indian Nationals 2016: 8.56SSN Cube Open 2016: 7.95VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2016: 7.96Cubing ATMOSphere 2016: 7.30Montfort Championship 2016: 5.72Shaastra Cube Open 2017: 6.44Cube Challenge Quark 2017: 7.27Carte Blanche Kube Open 2017: 7.97SRM Cube Open 2017: 8.13Indian Nationals 2017: 7.95SSN Cube Open 2017: 8.20VIT Rubik's Cube Challenge 2017: 8.06NIT Trichy Open 2017: 7.81Grand Cube Open 2017: 7.69Shaastra Cube Open 2018: 6.97CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2018: 7.07Carte Blanche Kube Open 2018: 8.16Daksh Open Cube 2018: 7.24Takshashila Cube Open 2018: 7.49SRM Cube Open 2018: 7.34Indian Nationals 2018: 7.31SSN Cube Open 2018: 6.73IIITDM Cube Open 2018: 7.53CMI Autumn Open 2018: 7.25Phoenix C3 Open 2018: 7.90Shaastra Cube Open 2019: 7.17CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2019: 6.57Daksh Cube Open 2019: 7.97Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019: 6.75Pragyan Cube Open 2019: 7.11Indian Nationals 2019: 6.59Sri Ramachandra Cube Open 2019: 7.99SSN Cube Open 2019: 6.92Hyderabad Cube Open 2019: 6.34SRM Cube Open 2019: 6.63Raipur Cube Carnival 2019: 6.78C3 Cup Finale 2019: 6.87CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2020: 6.49SSN Cube Open 2022: 6.801st Salem Open 2022: 6.97Chennai Cubing Club Meetup 2023: 6.30CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023: 6.83SSN Cube Saturday 2023: 6.02Indian Nationals 2023: 6.81CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024: 6.76Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024: 6.59SSN Cube Open 2025: 7.18VR Bengaluru Cube Open A 2025: 6.28SSN Cube Challenge 2025: 6.73Weekend Cubing Hunt at Coimbatore 2026: 5.97Cubing at Sri Eshwar Coimbatore 2026: 5.845.7220.696 Oct 201226 Jul 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.