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Itai Hershberg

3×3 one-handed · top 0.31% of 74,621 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022HERS02

Itai Hershberg has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.49, set at Israel Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Israel. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since August 2022, he has put 1,136 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.43 in August 2022 to 6.41, a 58% improvement. Itai has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.31% of 74,621 all-time
8.49
signature single · Israel Championship 2026
1,136
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×3 one-handed8.4912.90
top 0.31%3 / 678
3×36.418.12
top 0.79%25 / 2,044
2×21.321.89
top 1.4%26 / 1,421
Skewb2.874.16
top 4.4%35 / 634
Pyraminx3.394.62
top 5.0%63 / 973
4×434.9837.69
top 6.8%47 / 659
Megaminx57.551:03.72
top 8.8%29 / 264
5×51:11.771:20.53
top 13.0%38 / 345
Clock8.019.16
top 15.2%46 / 252
6×62:16.412:29.52
top 18.8%26 / 127
Square-116.3225.68
top 19.4%63 / 255
7×73:52.224:02.27
top 27.9%25 / 99

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

Israel Championship 2022: 15.43Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 13.56NR Hanukkah: BigCubes 2022: 9.80Kubiat HaNegev A 2023: 9.42Israel Championship 2023: 10.23Cubing for Yuval 2023: 9.45Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024: 8.01CinemaCube Israel 2024: 7.92Israel Open 2024: 8.98Mike's Cubes 2024: 10.31Israel Championship 2024: 8.82Cubing for Yuval 2024: 9.09Hannukubing Israel 2024: 7.90Haifa Cubing 2025: 7.37Yeruham Cubing 2025: 8.45Israel Championship 2025: 7.28Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 7.30NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 6.41Mike's Cubes Israel 2026: 6.41Israel Championship 2026: 7.17Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026: 7.586.4115.4316 Aug 202228 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.

  • Ben Baron — met in 219 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Roy Tamir — met in 201 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
  • Netanel Pour — met in 187 rounds, finished ahead 31 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.