People · Malaysia
Arif Imran Bin Arifin
Clock · top 1.2% of 32,048 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019ARIF06
Arif Imran Bin Arifin has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.32, set at XMUM Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Malaysia. Until March 2019, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since December 2019, he has put 631 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.36 in December 2019 to 9.12, an 81% improvement. Arif has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Malaysia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 3.32 | 4.26 | top 1.2% | 4 / 406 | |
| 2×2 | 1.56 | 3.24 | top 2.4% | 57 / 2,541 | |
| Square-1 | 8.44 | 13.72 | top 3.6% | 14 / 364 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.24 | 4.20 | top 4.5% | 81 / 1,723 | |
| 3×3 | 9.12 | 9.96 | top 5.1% | 258 / 3,773 | |
| Skewb | 3.09 | 5.47 | top 5.4% | 54 / 1,053 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.60 | 19.82 | top 7.3% | 107 / 1,327 | |
| 4×4 | 35.88 | 41.83 | top 7.6% | 123 / 1,219 | |
| Megaminx | 55.73 | 1:02.60 | top 7.8% | 61 / 518 | |
| 5×5 | 1:11.48 | 1:20.20 | top 12.7% | 112 / 617 | |
| 6×6 | 2:24.56 | 2:40.23 | top 22.8% | 72 / 232 |
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
- 23 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2025.
- 15 Feb 2025Three personal bests in one day at XMUM Cube Open 2025.
- 31 Aug 2024Six personal bests in one day at Warm Up at gateway klia2 2024.
- 25 May 2024Nine personal bests in one day at Sunway Velocity Mall Open 2024.
- 1 Dec 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.58 at Malaysia Cube Championship 2023.
- 1 Dec 2023Nine personal bests in one day at Malaysia Cube Championship 2023.
Competitions
- Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- XMUM Cube Open 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Sleepless in Selangor 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up at gateway klia2 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Sunway Velocity Mall Open 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 9 personal bests set
- Malaysia Cube Championship 2023 · 1 Dec 2023 — 9 personal bests set
- Selangor Ace Cube 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023 · 10 Mar 2023 — 8 personal bests set
- Malaysia Cube Championship 2022 · 9 Dec 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Selangor Cube Open 2019 · 27 Dec 2019
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.
- Lim Hung (林弘) — met in 128 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- Eng Dickson (黄迪胜) — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 61 times
- Boying Li (李博莹) — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead 44 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.