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David Yanson

3×3 · top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022YANS01

David Yanson has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.72, set at Cubing for Yuval 2023, puts him in the top 9.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 260th in Israel. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since July 2022, he has put 105 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.54 in July 2022 to 10.72, a 39% improvement. David has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.72
signature single · Cubing for Yuval 2023
105
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×310.7214.19
top 9.6%260 / 2,022
2×23.605.23
top 21.4%385 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed24.4328.64
top 32.7%234 / 658
4×41:06.541:16.42
top 43.5%293 / 659
5×52:11.072:28.66
top 56.1%185 / 345
Pyraminx11.3317.44
top 62.8%672 / 957
7×710:21.00
early days — 1 solve99 / 99

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

Stevenage Summer 2022: 17.54Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 13.36NR Hanukkah: BigCubes 2022: 13.88Kubiat HaNegev A 2023: 14.43Cubing for Yuval 2023: 10.7210.7217.549 Jul 20221 Oct 2023

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.