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Erez Orlovsky

Skewb · top 1.8% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023ORLO01

Erez Orlovsky has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.15, set at Israel Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Israel. Until December 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since March 2023, he has put 886 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.12 in March 2023 to 7.66, a 37% improvement. Erez has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 1.8% of 73,281 all-time
2.15
signature single · Israel Championship 2025
886
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
Skewb2.153.59
top 1.8%16 / 618
3×37.669.18
top 2.2%76 / 2,022
Pyraminx2.664.45
top 2.6%29 / 957
Square-17.9111.08
top 2.9%12 / 248
4×431.9637.27
top 4.1%34 / 659
2×21.933.12
top 4.3%84 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed13.6817.07
top 5.5%42 / 658
Clock8.039.12
top 15.3%47 / 252
Megaminx1:10.361:19.42
top 15.8%51 / 263
5×51:18.621:26.02
top 18.0%57 / 345
3×3 blindfolded1:53.43—
top 31.2%62 / 157
6×62:41.132:53.11
top 31.4%37 / 127
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
top 51.8%69 / 115

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

Puriminx B 2023: 12.12Kubiat HaNegev B 2023: 12.87Mike's Cubes 2023: 10.98Israel Championship 2023: 10.16Cubing for Yuval 2023: 9.63Israel Winter Open B 2024: 8.72Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024: 8.42Israel Championship 2024: 9.18Around the Clock Israel 2024: 8.16Cyprus Nationals 2024: 7.66Cubing for Yuval 2024: 8.77Hannukubing Israel 2024: 8.12Haifa Cubing 2025: 8.14Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.48Israel Championship 2025: 8.16Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 9.427.6612.877 Mar 20238 Oct 2025

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.

  • Ben Baron — met in 169 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Netanel Pour — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 149 rounds, finished ahead 22 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.