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Amitai Ziv

Skewb · top 0.44% of 73,281 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022ZIVA01

Amitai Ziv has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.49, set at Calvià Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.44% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Israel. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 69 competitions since April 2022, he has put 2,448 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.75 in April 2022 to 8.09, a 57% improvement. Amitai has entered 69 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.44% of 73,281 all-time
1.49
signature single · Calvià Open 2025
2,448
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
Skewb1.493.80
top 0.44%2 / 618
2×21.432.58
top 1.9%38 / 1,401
Megaminx41.1747.66
top 1.9%6 / 263
3×38.099.84
top 2.9%95 / 2,022
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves30.33
top 3.0%6 / 115
3×3 one-handed14.1915.88
top 6.5%47 / 658
Square-110.7115.00
top 7.4%28 / 248
5×51:07.051:14.38
top 9.7%32 / 345
6×61:57.032:08.15
top 9.9%18 / 127
4×438.6041.97
top 10.5%71 / 659
Pyraminx4.726.66
top 11.5%143 / 957
Clock7.518.16
top 13.0%36 / 252
7×73:11.503:17.70
top 13.8%16 / 99
3×3 blindfolded1:14.501:52.04
top 17.6%34 / 157
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 42:02—
top 26.2%14 / 57
4×4 blindfolded8:07.67—
top 44.3%10 / 27
5×5 blindfolded35:06.00—
early days — 1 solve14 / 14

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

Aficube B 2022: 18.75Kubiat Ruth 2022: 16.94Israel Championship 2022: 13.38Kubiat HaGalil A 2022: 13.40NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022: 10.36Cyprus Winter Cup 2023: 10.27Puriminx A 2023: 9.54Kubiat HaNegev A 2023: 11.03Mike's Cubes 2023: 9.45Israel Championship 2023: 8.33Budapest Back to School 2023: 10.41Cubing for Yuval 2023: 9.30Israel Winter Open B 2024: 10.05Kolla Winter Cup 2024: 8.09Weekend Cubing B Israel 2024: 9.81CinemaCube Israel 2024: 11.02Israel Open 2024: 9.02Mike's Cubes 2024: 11.31Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 8.98Israel Championship 2024: 9.98Around the Clock Israel 2024: 9.96Cubing for Yuval 2024: 8.72Hannukubing Israel 2024: 9.77Cyprus Cubing League I 2025: 9.83Cubing Carnival Israel 2025: 9.49Haifa Cubing 2025: 9.29Ivanka pri Dunaji Open 2025: 9.01Yeruham Cubing 2025: 10.06Israel Championship 2025: 9.53Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 8.76Cyprus Cubing League IV 2025: 10.64Hungarian Open 2025: 9.32Calvià Open 2025: 8.97NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 9.71Cyprus Nationals 2025: 10.38Mike's Cubes Israel 2026: 8.61Israel Championship 2026: 8.638.0918.7519 Apr 202225 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.