Here’s our updated Leaderboard for 2026

YTD (Rank)	NAME	YTD (Cum)	#Contests	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	Lakshmi Prakash	2,186	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
1	Mona Sogal	2,186	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
1	Rathnakumar V	2,186	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
1	Samit Kallianpur	2,186	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
1	Venkatraghavan S	2,186	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
6	Ashit Hegde	2,185	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101	158
6	Ian VanderSchee	2,185	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
8	Narayanan R	2,184	14	166	157	148	156	135	160	162	149	168	157	169	198	101	158
9	Tejas Siddharth	2,181	14	166	157	148	156	132	161	162	149	166	157	169	199	101	158
10	Nagendra Prasad R.	2,180	14	166	157	146	156	131	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
10	Ramki Krishnan	2,180	14	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	149	168	157	169	199	101	158
12	Prakash Arumugam	2,179	14	160	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	101	158
13	Nilesh Parmar	2,178	14	161	157	148	155	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	199	101	158
14	Sparsh Sinha	2,172	14	166	157	148	156	135	161	162	148	168	153	162	197	101	158
15	Max Jackson	2,169	14	160	157	148	153	133	161	161	149	168	157	164	199	101	158
16	Himanshu Rajurkar	2,167	14	160	155	148	148	134	161	161	149	168	157	169	199	101	157
17	Madhusudan H	2,165	14	160	157	144	155	130	161	161	148	168	156	169	197	101	158
17	Venkatesan P.	2,165	14	160	153	146	156	134	161	157	148	168	156	169	199	101	157
19	Steve Gunter	2,158	14	166	157	148	154	134	161	159	149	168	140	167	199	101	155
20	Mukundala Balasubramanyam	2,142	14	148	155	146	154	131	160	157	149	166	152	168	199	101	156
21	Narayana Swamy D	2,043	13	165	154	148	156	–	161	161	148	166	157	169	199	101	158
22	Ratna Rao	2,025	13	166	157	148	155	135	161	162	148	168	157	169	199	100	–
23	Lakshmi Vaidyanathan	2,016	13	166	153	148	156	135	161	161	147	167	153	169	199	101	–
24	Jose A	2,004	13	–	157	148	155	133	161	161	147	168	157	164	199	101	153
25	Ramesh Ss	1,998	13	–	149	146	155	134	161	160	149	162	157	169	198	101	157
26	Ranjani Srikanth	1,990	13	151	157	148	146	134	160	161	148	168	–	163	198	101	155
27	Sandhya Paruchuri	1,987	13	128	157	148	156	135	161	161	148	168	157	169	198	101	–
28	Shobha Nayak	1,975	13	150	155	148	154	129	160	162	149	–	154	162	197	101	154
29	Veera Raghavan Sundararajan	1,974	13	–	152	148	134	131	161	162	144	162	156	168	198	100	158
30	Al Sanders	1,874	12	166	157	–	–	130	161	160	148	168	157	169	199	101	158
31	Devi Prasad	1,846	12	–	141	148	150	–	161	161	149	168	152	162	199	100	155
32	Krittibas Dasgupta	1,841	12	–	157	148	155	135		162	149	168	153	163	198	101	152
33	Sampath Shrinivasan	1,839	12	–	–	146	150	131	160	162	148	168	157	162	196	101	158
35	Madhup Tewari	1,665	11	160	157	148	156	134	161	162	149	168	–	169	–	101	–
34	Paul Henderson	1,701	11	–	–	148	156	133	161	162	148	167	–	169	198	101	158
36	Arvind Ramaswamy	1,569	10	–	157	148	156	–	161	162	148	168	–	169	199	101	–
37	Amita Annette Joseph	1,549	10	–	–	–	156	135	161	159	149	168	157	164	199	101	–
38	Jyothish Balakrishnan	1,480	10	–	157	148	153	134	160	162	148	–	152	169	–	97	–
39	Arun Hiregange	1,395	9	160	157	148	156	135	161	161	149	168	–	–	–	–	–
40	Aashwina Mouli	1,356	9	–	–	–	156	134	161	162	149	168	157	168	–	101	–
41	Rengaswamy Narasimhan	1,310	8	–	–	–	153	–	161	162	148	168	157	164	197	–	–
42	Arnav V Raju	1,231	8	–	–	–	156	132	159			–	157	169	199	101	158
43	Abhay Phadnis	1,110	7	–	157	–	–	–	160	162	148	168	153	162	–	–	–
44	Supriya Mithal	1,087	7	–	157	148	156	135	161	162		168	–	–	–	–	–
45	Harish T.K.	1,031	7	–	–	148	–	–	161	152	149	–	–	162	–	101	158
46	Sohil Bhagat	954	6	166	–	–	–	–	161			–	–	169	199	101	158
47	Binay Patra	933	6	–	–	148	152	–		161	148	–	157	167	–	–	–
48	Samraat Saxena	782	5	–	–	–		135	161		149	168	–	169	–	–	–
49	Debasmita Basu	752	5	159	–	–	–	–	161			162	–	169	–	101	–
50	Usha Dronamraju	616	4	–	–	148	156	–			148	–	–	164	–	–	–
51	Harish Kamath	587	4	–	–	–	156	–	161			–	–	169	–	101	–
52	Nathan GS	551	4	151	–	–	–	–				–	–	163	–	83	154
53	Priya Shyam	545	4	–	–	146	–	129				–	–	169	–	101	–
54	Kabir Firaque	457	3					135	161			–	–	161	–	–	–
55	CrossBird	446	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	161	185	100	–
56	Neelima Rai	438	3	–	–	–						168	–	169	–	101	–
57	Bhalchandra Pasupathy	418	3	–	–	–	156	–	161			–	–	–	–	101	–
58	Jacob Brahmakulam	397	3	–	–	–		135				161	–	–	–	101	–
59	SSv Avtaar	314	2	–	–	–	153	–	161			–	–	–	–	–	–
60	Loks Subrahmanyam	310	2	–	–	–	152	–				–	–	–	–	–	158
61	Shashwat Salgaocar	260	2						160			–	–	–	–	100	–
62	Rajaram Sundararajan	243	2	–	–	–	143	–				–	–	–	–	100	–
63	Yasaswy Mokkapati	169	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	169	–	–	–
64	Ananya	168	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	168	–	–	–
65	Kitty Catty	161	1	161	–	–	–	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
66	Aswath Govindarajan!!	160	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	160	–	–	–
66	Shailesh Tipnis	160	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	160	–	–	–
68	Maya Sharma	156	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	156	–	–	–
68	Nick Loader	156	1	–	–	–	156	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
70	Dave Bromage	155	1	–	–	–	155	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
70	Srinivas KNS	155	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	155
72	Anupam Kathuria	151	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	151	–	–	–
73	Brian Kogler	149	1	–	–	–	149	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
74	bluebirdtotallydb24a5af88	145	1	–	–	–	145	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
75	Steve Allen	135	1	–	–	–	135	–				–	–	–	–	–	–
76	Andrew White	134	1	–	–	–		134				–	–	–	–	–	–
76	Crypt On Y X	134	1	–	–	–		134				–	–	–	–	–	–
76	Meera Nandakumar	134	1	–	–	–		134				–	–	–	–	–	–
79	Casey Callaghan	101	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	101	–
79	Suresh Dorbala	101	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	101	–
81	Koteswara Rao Kolluru	100	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	100	–
81	Pundit JEE	100	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	100	–
83	Amrita Majumdar	96	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	96	–
84	Tanish Jacob-Rego	65	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	65	–

Summary of Puzzles:

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Summary by Year

S.No	Year	Link	Player of the year
1.	2025	2025 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
2.	2024	2024 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
3.	2023	2023 Summary	Samit Kallianpur
4.	2022	2022 Summary	Samit Kallianpur
5.	2021	2021 Summary	Anicha Reuban
6.	2020	2020 Summary	Anirudh Sahni & Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
7.	2019	2019 Summary	Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman
8.	2018	2018 Summary	Viresh Ratnakar

2017

Welcome to the Party

Mixed Doubles

And Then There Was A Word

With Lots of Love

Maiden Over

The Autograph

2’s Company

Mayday

Mum’s the word

Double Dare

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