“Too much YouTube in his spare time,” his father Ramesh, a software engineer from Bangalore, told me. He had been banned from electronics for a month. There’s something called Pyraminx (a tetrahedron). ![]() After all, isn’t every Rubik’s Cube a 3x3? No, as it turns out. If you are, like me, a novice to the world of speed-cubing, you may wonder why these specs are necessary. ![]() When I saw him at the Championships, which were held over the last three days of May, in Chennai, he was in a preliminary round, attempting to solve a 3x3 cube - that is, three rows, three columns per face. With his grave expression and oval spectacles, Naren is just a lightning scar away from playing Harry Potter in a school play. ![]() For one, he’s 10, a small, scrawny kid with a red backpack on which a yellow octopus is beaming. Naren Ramesh isn’t the kind of person you’d expect to encounter at the Indian Nationals 2015, the competition otherwise known as 2015 Rubik’s Cube Indian National Championships.
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