Twist Fest Pune 2026

Date: Sep 13, 2026
City: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Venue: Noble HMA Bhavan
Address: 2nd floor, A wing, Rohan Plaza, DP Rd, Malwadi, Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra 411028
Details: Second floor, above Caramella's Cake Shop.
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Anjor Ghule, Joshua Allen Mangalapallil, and Speedcubing Pune
WCA Delegate: Rahul Venkatesan

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Information

• If you're participating in a WCA competition for first time or unaware of competition rules, make sure that you attend the tutorial session.

• If you're participating in a WCA competition for first time, please bring your goverment ID card for verification

• Participants must bring their own cubes.

• All the participants are requested to volunteer in the competition and every participant (except newcomers) will be assigned to a particular event they have to either judge, scramble, etc for the group/event.

• Only one guest per participant is allowed owing to space constraints in the venue.

• In the event of a theft, injury, etc. the organization team will not be held completely or partially responsible.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 60

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Sukant Koul won with an average of 4.84 seconds in the Clock event. Jay Nikhil Gadgil finished second (5.52) and Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap finished third (6.13).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kundan Shet	7.48	7.73	India	7.65	9.13	7.48	7.70	7.83
2	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	6.99	8.02	India	6.99	9.40	9.09	7.86	7.10
3	Anjor Ghule	8.67	9.47	United Kingdom	8.94	8.67	18.35	9.69	9.79

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ram Thakkar (राम ठक्कर)	1.36	1.88	India	1.36	3.02	1.81	1.58	2.25
2	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	1.43	2.12	India	1.43	2.45	2.47	2.80	1.43
3	Rahul Kulkarni	2.50	2.88	India	2.80	2.73	3.44	2.50	3.12

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dhruv Ambastha	17.65	DNF	India	19.16	DNF	18.70	DNF	17.65
2	Sukant Koul	24.35	DNF	India	24.35	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
3	Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (अभिजीत घोडगावकर)	34.49	41.50	India	41.91	40.86	41.74	53.31	34.49

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sukant Koul	3.95	4.84	India	4.55	3.95	4.94	DNF	5.03
2	Jay Nikhil Gadgil	4.51	5.52	India	4.71	4.51	4.57	8.35	7.29
3	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	5.01	6.13	India	6.47	6.54	5.85	5.01	6.08

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sukant Koul	45.10	49.23	India	45.10	49.57	50.00	51.08	48.11
2	Trishan Gupta	44.36	49.76	India	48.83	52.23	44.36	50.12	50.32
3	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	55.11	1:07.99	India	1:15.24	1:12.07	57.87	55.11	1:14.02

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Allen Mangalapallil	3.48	3.97	India	3.62	3.48	4.45	4.61	3.84
2	Dhruva Nikhil Jagtap	3.85	4.22	India	4.38	4.50	4.20	4.07	3.85
3	Jay Nikhil Gadgil	3.64	4.27	India	4.76	3.64	3.64	4.41	5.55

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Imaad Sohel Ajani	9.49	10.77	India	9.49	10.46	14.08	11.02	10.82
2	Sukant Koul	10.00	11.04	India	10.00	11.39	11.64	10.09	11.86
3	Joshua Allen Mangalapallil	9.07	14.53	India	21.58	14.49	9.07	14.64	14.46