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Hanzalah Ismail

3×3 · top 30.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016ISMA06

Hanzalah Ismail has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.75, set at Gauteng Summer 2019, puts him in the top 30.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 386th in South Africa. Across 3 competitions since November 2016, he has put 65 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.21 in November 2016 to 16.75, a 28% improvement. Hanzalah has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.2% of 284,439 all-time
16.75
signature single · Gauteng Summer 2019
65
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×316.7520.04
top 30.2%386 / 2,164
2×25.718.21
top 47.8%526 / 1,510
3×3 one-handed1:08.321:23.04
top 88.3%350 / 467

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

Johannesburg 2016: 23.21Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 17.31Gauteng Summer 2019: 16.7516.7523.2127 Nov 20165 Jan 2019

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.