People · India
Vikram Gopinath
3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019GOPI01
Vikram Gopinath has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.87, set at VIT Cube Challenge B 2024, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 769th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,064 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.30 in January 2019 to 9.87, a 26% improvement. Vikram has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% 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 | 9.87 | 12.44 | top 7.1% | 769 / 20,018 | |
| 2×2 | 2.31 | 4.23 | top 7.1% | 557 / 12,146 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.39 | 19.91 | top 8.9% | 289 / 4,516 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 32 moves | 39.33 | top 20.4% | 75 / 600 | |
| 4×4 | 48.92 | 57.59 | top 23.3% | 687 / 4,186 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.13 | 13.15 | top 28.9% | 1,793 / 8,934 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:13.06 | 2:34.62 | top 37.6% | 170 / 598 | |
| 3×3 Multi-Blind | 2 of 2 cubes · 14:34 | — | early days — 1 solve | 105 / 168 | |
| Skewb | 15.56 | 21.57 | top 80.1% | 2,440 / 3,524 | |
| 5×5 | 4:16.05 | — | top 93.5% | 1,339 / 1,525 | |
| Clock | 1:05.36 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,068 / 1,092 | |
| Megaminx | 8:24.10 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,443 / 1,443 |
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 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Amrita Cube Open 2025.
- 10 Nov 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.87 at VIT Cube Challenge B 2024.
- 13 Jan 2019Three personal bests in one day at VDCA Winter Open 2019.
- 5 Jan 2019First competition: Shaastra Cube Open 2019. A 14.78 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing at Sri Eshwar Coimbatore 2026 · 26 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Weekend Cubing Hunt at Coimbatore 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Rockfort City Cubing Challenge 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Solve N Cruise at Serene Alleppey 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at Vivira B 2026 · 10 May 2026
- SSN Cube Challenge 2025 · 15 Nov 2025
- VIT Cube Open 2025 · 13 Sep 2025
- Calicut Cubing Conquest 2025 · 6 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Play Extreme Cubing A 2025 · 3 Aug 2025
- TN Hits Century FMC Ooty 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- Amrita Cube Open 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing Comes to Madurai 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Anna Kalyanam in Jolarpet 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Pragyan Cube Open 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- SSN Cube Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Chennai Beach House Open 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Back to Cubing Madras 2025 · 11 Jan 2025
- SABA Cube Open Kerala 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- VIT Cube Challenge B 2024 · 10 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2024 · 15 Aug 2024
- Calicut Cubing Conquest 2024 · 6 Jul 2024
- mcubes Cubing Clash 2024 · 25 May 2024
- Salem Summer Open 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Big n BLD Finprov 2024 · 7 Apr 2024
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College Cube Open 2024 · 17 Mar 2024
- Tamil Nadu Cube Open 2024 · 4 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- C3 Republic Day 2024 · 26 Jan 2024
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2024 · 26 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kumaraguru Cube Open 2023 · 30 Sep 2023
- SSN Cube Saturday 2023 · 23 Sep 2023
- mcubes Cube Open 2023 · 29 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Northern Lights Coimbatore Cube Open 2023 · 27 May 2023
- DC Open April Sunday 2023 · 23 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- MCC Cube Open 2023 · 19 Mar 2023
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2023 · 4 Feb 2023
- Chennai Cubing Club Meetup 2023 · 4 Feb 2023
- Cubing Sunday in SSN 2022 · 18 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Thoothukudi Cube Open 2022 · 9 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Comes To Pondy 2022 · 21 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- 1st Salem Open 2022 · 26 Jun 2022
- SRM Cube Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019
- SSN Cube Open 2019 · 27 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Pragyan Cube Open 2019 · 17 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Carte Blanche Kube Open 2019 · 2 Mar 2019
- CMI Tessellate Cube Open 2019 · 1 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- VDCA Winter Open 2019 · 13 Jan 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Shaastra Cube Open 2019 · 5 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Arun Kannan — met in 192 rounds, finished ahead 83 times
- Sujai Shakthivel — met in 163 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Muhammad Rayyan — met in 144 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.