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Ariel Rivkin

3×3 · top 29.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022RIVK01

Ariel Rivkin has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.54, set at Israel Championship 2024, puts him in the top 29.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 717th in Israel. Across 5 competitions since August 2022, he has put 61 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.34 in August 2022 to 16.54, a 65% improvement. Ariel has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.5% of 284,439 all-time
16.54
signature single · Israel Championship 2024
61
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×316.5420.25
top 29.5%717 / 2,022
Pyraminx9.5824.55
top 49.7%551 / 957
2×26.579.56
top 56.7%892 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed1:07.01
early days — 3 solves584 / 658
4×42:48.15
early days — 2 solves627 / 659
Skewb27.29
early days — 2 solves600 / 618

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

Israel Championship 2022: 47.34Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 27.52Kubiat HaNegev B 2023: 27.12Israel Open 2024: 21.87Israel Championship 2024: 16.5416.5447.3416 Aug 202218 Aug 2024

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.54 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.