People · South Africa
Aamina El Saadi
2×2 · top 8.1% of 189,179 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025SAAD03
Aamina El Saadi has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.41, set at Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025, puts her in the top 8.1% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in South Africa. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since May 2025, she has put 78 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Aamina has entered two competitions.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | South Africa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.41 | 5.27 | top 8.1% | 80 / 1,525 | |
| 3×3 | 10.78 | 12.97 | top 9.9% | 108 / 2,187 | |
| Megaminx | 1:26.14 | 1:38.68 | top 25.8% | 43 / 268 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.69 | 10.19 | top 33.7% | 263 / 958 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 37.64 | 43.69 | top 61.9% | 181 / 473 |
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
- 24 May 2025First competition: Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025. A 11.46 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing in the Cape Q1 2026 · 8 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 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 her.
- Daniel Rush — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jesse Osburn — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ayabonga John Ajayi — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
Targets move as she improves.