MindSweep 2025 – RESULTS & RANKINGS

We’re happy to announce the results of MindSweep 2025.

Jayakanthan R of Chennai, the defending champion, retains his MindSweep with a mindboggling score of 121.

Following not very close behind are Rahul Kottalgi (Bengaluru) with 103, and Gokul S (Delhi) with 102. The trio of Calvin Christ, Santosh JS, and Preetham Upadhya (all from Bengaluru) also crossed the century mark.

Category toppers:

Arts – 14 (Rahul Kottalgi, Anustup Datta, Rajiv Rai, Praveen VR)
Food & Beverages – 18 (Santosh JS)
Movies & TV – 20 (Jayakanthan)
Literature – 19 (Jayakanthan)
Music – 15 (Jayakanthan, Santosh JS)
Sciences – 15 (Thejaswi Udupa)
Social Sciences – 19 (Jayakanthan)
Sports & Games – 19 (Preetham Upadhya)

Once again, a big thank you to all the quiz organisations, proctors, participants, and our quiz setters. See you in 2025!

Rank	Name	Centre	Category	Total	Arts	Food & Beverages	Movies & TV	Literature	Music	Social Sciences	Sciences	Sports & Games
1	Jayakanthan	Chennai	Open	121	12	14	20	19	15	19	12	10
2	Rahul Kottalgi	Bangalore	Open	103	14	15	13	12	9	14	11	15
3	Gokul S	Delhi	Open	102	13	10	12	13	11	15	11	17
4	Calvin	Bangalore	Open	101	12	17	7	14	12	14	12	13
4	Santosh JS	Bangalore	Open	101	8	18	14	13	15	13	10	10
5	Preetham Upadhya	Bangalore	Open	100	8	12	8	10	13	18	12	19
6	Thejaswi Udupa	Bangalore	Open	99	13	12	9	13	13	11	15	13
7	Hrishikesh Varma	Bangalore	Open	96	11	12	12	12	10	14	11	14
8	Aswath Venkataraman	Mumbai	Open	94	10	10	6	13	11	15	12	17
9	Anustup Datta	Bangalore	Open	90	14	11	9	11	7	14	11	13
10	Rajiv Rai	Mumbai	Open	89	14	12	8	10	7	14	12	12
10	Shashwat	Bangalore	Open	89	9	11	7	12	10	14	10	16
11	Mario F	Chennai	Open	88	12	9	9	9	10	13	12	14
12	Aadisht Khanna	Mumbai	Open	86	10	14	11	11	7	10	14	9
13	Shree Patwardhan	Singapore	Open	83	10	14	10	9	9	12	10	9
14	Abid Abdulla	Bangalore	Open	80	8	7	10	9	10	14	6	16
14	Jaidev Karunakaran	Bangalore	Open	80	10	9	7	11	8	17	9	9
14	Jayashree Mohanka	Kolkata	Ladies	80	10	13	5	10	8	14	10	10
14	Praveen VR	Bangalore	Open	80	14	10	8	11	8	13	9	7
14	Sourjo Sengupta	Bangalore	Open	80	10	4	14	11	6	12	13	10
15	Annie SenGupta	Goa	Open	78	11	10	8	12	10	11	8	8
15	Govind Grewal	Mumbai	Open	78	7	6	18	15	10	11	6	5
16	Sushant Shekhar	Bangalore	Open	77	11	9	8	7	11	14	9	8
17	Kavya	Bangalore	College	75	8	12	9	9	8	11	7	11
18	Abdul Raouf	Bangalore	Open	74	9	8	11	14	7	12	7	6
18	Baibaswata Jena	Kolkata	Open	74	7	10	9	7	9	11	8	13
18	Sania Narulkar	Mumbai	Ladies	74	12	11	8	12	8	9	5	9
19	Muhammed Munavvir V V	Delhi	Open	72	13	5	13	5	11	10	6	9
20	Bryan Robert	Bangalore	Open	71	10	13	5	3	5	12	10	13
21	Ajit Nayak	Singapore	Open	70	7	8	8	11	6	15	5	10
21	Wrichik Basu	Kolkata	Open	70	8	8	8	7	5	14	12	8
22	Shafeek M. K.	Dubai	Open	68	8	5	10	9	5	15	6	10
23	Arnold D'Souza	Pune	Open	66	6	7	6	6	7	13	7	14
24	Aniruddha Mitra	Mumbai	Open	64	6	3	13	9	8	9	6	10
24	Sujay	Bangalore	Open	64	4	12	8	6	4	9	14	7
25	Alok Mohan	Dubai	Open	63	9	8	7	10	6	9	8	6
25	Swapnil Sinha	Bangalore	Open	63	5	11	10	4	7	12	4	10
26	Abhilash	Bangalore	Open	62	7	10	10	3	8	11	6	7
26	Anirudh Chari	Kolkata	Open	62	11	11	4	15	7	7	4	3
26	Arunoday Chaudhuri	Kolkata	Open	62	11	11	4	9	2	11	8	6
26	Piyush Kedia	Delhi	Open	62	8	5	9	6	7	10	8	9
27	Anand Sivashankar	Chennai	Open	61	5	8	6	10	6	10	5	11
27	Sreeradh RP	Bangalore	Open	61	8	8	10	2	8	10	7	8
27	Venky Srinivasan	Bangalore	Open	61	7	6	9	7	4	12	4	12
28	Komban Subhas Christopher	Thrissur	College	60	9	13	4	2	7	9	6	10
28	Nikhil Sonde	Mumbai	Open	60	5	11	10	6	5	9	11	3
28	Sanat Pai Raikar	Bangalore	Open	60	7	7	6	9	4	12	5	10
29	Ashish Saksena	Singapore	Open	58	5	7	9	5	7	12	7	6
29	Santonab Chakraborty	Mumbai	Open	58	11	5	9	3	7	9	7	7
29	Shrey Shylesh	Mumbai	Open	58	5	2	14	8	4	9	7	9
30	Saransh Mohapatra	Kolkata	Open	54	12	8	6	0	9	7	6	6
31	Mukilan Ayyapparaj	Coimbatore	Open	53	9	4	7	4	8	11	3	7
32	BA Pranavi	Chennai	College	52	7	5	10	5	5	5	6	9
33	Madan	Bangalore	Open	51	0	3	6	5	9	11	6	11
33	Pranav Venkat	Singapore	Open	51	4	10	5	3	4	8	3	14
33	Rahul Jadhav	Bangalore	Open	51	5	8	7	5	3	5	8	10
34	Deepanjan Deb	Guwahati	Open	50	3	3	3	3	4	10	6	18
34	Murali Krishnamurthy	Dubai	Open	50	6	6	1	6	7	10	9	5
35	Alok G Singh	Singapore	Open	49	3	11	6	4	6	7	6	6
35	Charles Matthew	Pune	Open	49	8	6	5	4	3	9	8	6
36	Chinmay Kale	Pune	Open	46	5	6	6	2	5	9	6	7
36	Sanjay K R	Goa	Open	46	4	8	3	3	5	8	6	9
37	Sushant	Delhi	Open	45	8	5	4	6	4	8	5	5
38	Amlan Sanyal	Kolkata	Open	44	0	2	8	4	8	7	3	12
38	Kaushik Chatterji	Delhi	Open	44	3	4	8	8	5	10	3	3
39	Debanjan Mahapatra	Delhi	College	43	6	4	4	10	2	7	7	3
39	Rajat Gururaj	Bangalore	Open	43	6	6	3	4	6	8	6	4
39	Sarath V R	Thiruvananthapuram	Open	43	6	2	1	5	6	6	12	5
39	Sudip Kalyan Dey	Kolkata	Open	43	6	10	5	3	2	7	7	3
39	Vinay Upadhyay	Guwahati	Open	43	3	4	7	9	6	6	4	4
40	Shantanu Sharma	Mumbai	Open	42	4	4	5	2	2	8	6	11
41	Akshay Sreyas	Thiruvananthapuram	Open	41	5	1	8	4	7	3	8	5
41	Mohammed Ameen K.M	Thrissur	College	41	7	4	6	3	5	6	4	6
41	Nikhil Jha	Bangalore	Open	41	4	4	5	3	4	7	4	10
41	Sathya Narayanan	Coimbatore	Open	41	3	2	9	2	5	9	3	8
41	Vishnu	Bangalore	Open	41	4	4	8	4	3	8	6	4
42	Appu S	Thiruvananthapuram	Open	40	3	4	6	1	6	6	5	9
42	Ravi Ananthan	Dubai	Open	40	6	0	8	8	4	5	6	3
42	Roshan Krishna	Coimbatore	Open	40	4	2	7	0	5	7	4	11
43	Praveen Jayaraj	Coimbatore	Open	39	6	2	6	5	5	4	4	7
43	Siddarth K	Bangalore	Open	39	2	8	4	5	3	6	5	6
44	Prajwal	Bangalore	College	38	5	6	2	2	2	7	5	9
44	Samir Gupta	Pune	Open	38	3	5	1	5	3	10	7	4
44	Sanveer Singh Puri	Ahmedabad	Open	38	4	5	1	4	2	5	7	10
44	Sarvesh Shenoy	Mumbai	Open	38	6	6	4	3	0	7	7	5
44	Syed Shakeel Imdad	Hyderabad	Open	38	6	3	4	3	5	6	6	5
45	CR Naveen	Coimbatore	Open	37	6	6	4	1	4	6	6	4
45	Viola Rodriguez	Goa	Open	37	6	5	5	2	4	4	9	2
46	Anuradha Dharwadkar	Ahmedabad	Ladies	36	5	11	2	3	2	4	6	3
46	Ganesh TS	Bangalore	Open	36	5	6	5	3	2	7	4	4
47	Rama Subramanian	Hyderabad	Open	34	4	0	2	1	3	9	5	10
47	Rishi Roy	Delhi	College	34	7	2	3	3	6	5	4	4
48	kapinjal Kishore Sharma	Guwahati	Open	33	3	2	6	6	4	6	3	3
48	Pinakpani Kashyap	Chennai	Open	33	5	4	4	4	5	5	4	2
49	Gautam Ghosh	Kolkata	Open	30	6	3	0	3	3	9	4	2
49	Santhanam	Coimbatore	Open	30	0	1	3	2	5	6	7	6
50	Karthik Ganesan	Delhi	Open	29	4	4	2	0	2	5	9	3
50	Shiladitya Ganguli	Kolkata	Open	29	2	5	0	3	3	6	8	2
50	Uma Shankari Kalayath Promoth	Thrissur	College	29	4	5	4	1	3	5	3	4
51	Sankar Roy	Kolkata	Open	28	6	2	0	4	2	3	8	3
51	Waqar Moid	Kolkata	College	28	3	0	2	3	4	7	3	6
52	Parth Arya Bhat	Delhi	College	27	3	6	1	3	1	6	5	2
52	Rikesh Bhattacharyya	Kolkata	Open	27	3	5	7	0	4	2	3	3
53	Osho	Thiruvananthapuram	Open	26	0	4	3	3	4	5	3	4
53	Praneet	Coimbatore	Open	26	1	3	7	0	2	7	2	4
54	Kim Mascarenhas	Dubai	Ladies	25	4	7	1	2	0	5	3	3
54	Paul Gatward	Goa	Open	25	5	4	1	1	4	6	2	2
55	Parth Panchal	Ahmedabad	Open	24	1	5	2	0	4	3	5	4
55	Sharat Chandar	Coimbatore	Open	24	1	6	4	1	3	2	4	3
56	Bhaskar Chakraborty	Delhi	Open	23	0	2	6	2	2	4	5	2
57	Neelam Goswami	Chennai	Ladies	22	3	5	1	0	4	4	4	1
58	Amlan Chakraborty	Delhi	Open	21	5	4	2	2	2	2	1	3
58	Nirupama V	Chennai	Ladies	21	5	6	5	5	0	0	0	0
59	Shashank M	Chennai	School	20	3	3	3	2	2	3	1	3
60	Atharv Lodhi	Delhi	College	18	3	1	1	0	1	5	4	3
60	Soumya	Kolkata	Ladies	18	2	1	1	2	3	3	5	1
60	Tejas	Bangalore	Open	18	2	1	0	3	0	7	4	1
61	Hrishikesh Kashyap	Guwahati	Open	17	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	0
61	Niyati Jois	Kolkata	School	17	3	3	1	2	1	2	3	2
62	Rudra Deka	Guwahati	Open	16	1	3	2	6	0	3	0	1
63	Saurav ambastha	Guwahati	Open	15	2	0	2	0	1	2	4	4
63	Ujjaini Ghosh	Singapore	Open	15	3	2	3	1	0	2	2	2
64	Utkarsh Ruhela	Delhi	Open	14	3	1	1	0	0	5	1	3
65	Sreeja Dutta	Delhi	Ladies	13	1	0	0	3	1	2	4	2
66	Harsh Mehta	Hyderabad	Open	12	2	2	0	1	0	1	3	3
67	Ansif Azeez	Thiruvananthapuram	Open	11	1	0	1	1	3	2	3	0
67	Rohit Taneja	Delhi	Open	11	3	2	4	1	0	0	1	0
68	Deepa Rao	Goa	Open	10	0	1	1	0	1	2	4	1
68	Guru Shankar	Chennai	Open	10	2	1	0	1	1	3	0	2
68	Hasit Trivedi	Ahmedabad	Open	10	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	5
68	Hemanshu VM	Bangalore	School	10	1	1	0	0	1	3	2	2
68	Razdan	Guwahati	Open	10	1	0	2	1	0	2	3	1
69	K Palani	Chennai	Open	9	2	0	1	0	2	2	2	0
70	Arunava Roy	Kolkata	College	7	0	0	2	0	1	2	1	1
71	Rakesh Chaturvedi	Delhi	Open	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
71	Sagnik Ghosh	Mumbai	Open	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
72	Sudipta Basak	Kolkata	Open	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
73	Anjima Kakati	Guwahati	College	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
73	Roshni Binsa KB	Thrissur	School	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0