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Gilad Hanania

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022HANA01

Gilad Hanania has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.09, set at Israel Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in Israel. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since March 2022, he has put 254 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.19 in March 2022 to 7.09, a 37% improvement. Gilad has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.09
signature single · Israel Championship 2026
254
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×37.098.54
top 1.4%46 / 2,022
2×22.323.16
top 7.2%152 / 1,401
Pyraminx5.006.38
top 13.2%160 / 957
4×449.2553.63
top 23.8%146 / 659
Skewb7.5610.92
top 37.9%257 / 618
5×51:43.862:08.41
top 38.2%127 / 345
3×3 one-handed27.5336.59
top 40.7%287 / 658
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves46.33
early days — 3 solves72 / 115
6×66:08.33
early days — 1 solve119 / 127

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

Kubiat Esther 2022: 11.19Aficube A 2022: 9.46Israel Championship 2022: 8.64Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 8.33NR Hanukkah: BigCubes 2022: 9.17Israel Championship 2023: 7.90Mike's Cubes Israel 2026: 7.16Israel Championship 2026: 7.097.0911.1916 Mar 202225 Aug 2026

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.

  • Roy Tamir — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Yoav Vishne — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ben Baron — met in 42 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.09 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.