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Hamza Hafeez

3×3 · top 0.62% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018HAFE01

Hamza Hafeez has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.20, set at Benicia Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 420th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since January 2018, he has put 1,094 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.89 in January 2018 to 6.20, a 67% improvement. Hamza has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.62% of 288,433 all-time
6.20
signature single · Benicia Open 2025
1,094
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.209.12
top 0.62%420 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed12.0415.16
top 3.1%486 / 15,900
2×21.773.28
top 3.5%1,371 / 41,674
Skewb3.069.59
top 5.3%831 / 19,164
4×434.0340.45
top 5.9%922 / 19,354
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves32.67
top 8.0%189 / 2,059
Clock7.589.79
top 13.2%1,038 / 9,172
Pyraminx6.159.99
top 21.1%5,766 / 29,168
3×3 blindfolded2:02.90—
top 34.4%718 / 2,128
Megaminx1:47.861:57.22
top 39.3%2,903 / 8,026
5×51:58.022:31.86
top 48.2%4,081 / 9,537
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 45:08—
early days — 2 solves459 / 740

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

SacCubing III 2018: 18.89SacCubing IX 2020: 11.75SacCubing XI 2022: 9.89SacCubing XII 2022: 11.00Davis Fall 2023: 7.44Claws Up Winter 2023: 9.61Folsom Winter 2023: 10.26SacCubing XVI 2024: 9.23Davis Winter 2024: 10.23Chico Spring 2024: 9.27Claws Up Final Touchdown 2024: 8.25Folsom Summer 2024: 8.96Davis Summer 2024: 9.14La La Land 2024: 8.61Davis Fall 2024: 9.56Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 8.12Rocklin Winter 2024: 10.19Davis Weeknight February 2025: 9.16Berkeley March Weekday NxN 2025: 8.22Davis Spring 2025: 9.03Rock-Cube-Lin Qualifier 2025: 8.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.50Davis Summer 2025: 6.85Benicia Open 2025: 6.20SacCubing XXI 2025: 8.52Berkeley Fall 2025: 7.76Davis Fall 2025: 9.56Yuba City Fall 2025: 7.77Berkeley December Weekday 2025: 9.97SacCubing XXII 2026: 9.65Berkeley January Weekday 2026: 9.31Davis Winter 2026: 7.43Davis Winter Weeknight 2026: 8.42Yuba City Spring 2026: 8.98Duper Super Davis Spring 2026: 6.88Davis Spring Sunset 2026: 10.53SacCubing XXIII 2026: 8.89West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.87Alameda County Fair 2026: 9.74Davis Big Summer 2026: 8.10Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 8.49Benicia Open II 2026: 8.08SacCubing XXIV 2026: 7.886.2018.8927 Jan 201820 Sep 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.