People · Israel
Gideon Pollack
3×3 · top 4.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023POLL05
Gideon Pollack has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.80, set at Haifa Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 127th in Israel. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since April 2023, he has put 156 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.52 in April 2023 to 8.80, a 43% improvement. Gideon 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 | 8.80 | 10.45 | top 4.4% | 127 / 2,044 | |
| 2×2 | 2.11 | 3.81 | top 5.6% | 121 / 1,421 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.44 | 5.89 | top 9.9% | 126 / 973 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.33 | 20.43 | top 11.0% | 77 / 678 | |
| Megaminx | 1:30.30 | 1:47.00 | top 28.4% | 80 / 264 | |
| 4×4 | 53.69 | 58.23 | top 29.3% | 183 / 659 | |
| Square-1 | 1:00.40 | — | early days — 2 solves | 225 / 255 |
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
- 15 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 8.80 at Haifa Cubing 2025.
- 15 Apr 2025Four personal bests in one day at Haifa Cubing 2025.
- 16 Feb 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.57 at Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024.
- 3 Apr 2023First competition: Kubiat HaNegev B 2023. A 17.05 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026 · 28 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Haifa Cubing 2025 · 15 Apr 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Israel Open 2024 · 24 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- CinemaCube Israel 2024 · 24 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024 · 16 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kubiat HaNegev B 2023 · 3 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Mark Sander — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead once
- Uri Roitgrund — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Itai Hershberg — met in 28 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
Targets move as he improves.