People · Israel
Ari Pineles
3×3 · top 28.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025PINE08
Ari Pineles has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.24, set at Mike's Cubes Israel 2026, puts him in the top 28.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 697th in Israel. Across 6 competitions since October 2025, he has put 90 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.40 in October 2025 to 16.24, a 36% improvement. Ari has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Israel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 16.24 | 22.93 | top 28.6% | 697 / 2,022 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:59.24 | — | top 33.3% | 66 / 157 | |
| 2×2 | 7.00 | 8.92 | top 60.4% | 951 / 1,401 | |
| 4×4 | 1:27.52 | — | top 61.8% | 409 / 659 | |
| Clock | 19.81 | — | top 64.1% | 179 / 252 | |
| Pyraminx | 13.08 | 18.37 | top 73.3% | 775 / 957 | |
| Skewb | 16.70 | 21.26 | top 83.2% | 530 / 618 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:03.55 | — | top 85.9% | 574 / 658 | |
| Square-1 | 1:07.64 | — | top 88.0% | 232 / 248 |
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
- 5 Jul 2026First sub-20 3×3: 16.24 at Mike's Cubes Israel 2026.
- 5 Jul 2026Three personal bests in one day at Mike's Cubes Israel 2026.
- 8 Oct 2025First competition: Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025. A 25.40 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Israel Championship 2026 · 25 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026 · 9 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Mike's Cubes Israel 2026 · 5 Jul 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- NR Hanukkah B Israel 2025 · 17 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Silence in Be'er Ya'akov 2025 · 5 Dec 2025
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025 · 8 Oct 2025
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.
- Jesse Arnon — met in 27 rounds, finished ahead once
- Tuval Stone — met in 27 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yoav Atsmon — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
- A sub-1:30 3×3 blindfolded single — 2,810 people have one; it is 29.24 away.
Targets move as he improves.