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Itai Werner

3×3 · top 1.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022WERN01

Itai Werner has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.17, set at Israel Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 53rd in Israel. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since March 2022, he has put 619 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.37 in March 2022 to 7.17, a 63% improvement. Itai has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 288,433 all-time
7.17
signature single · Israel Championship 2025
619
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×37.179.47
top 1.5%53 / 2,044
2×21.912.86
top 4.2%81 / 1,421
3×3 one-handed15.1718.29
top 8.5%61 / 678
Pyraminx4.777.98
top 11.8%150 / 973
Skewb4.347.71
top 13.3%88 / 634
4×444.1649.33
top 17.3%107 / 659
Clock8.9512.42
top 19.6%60 / 252
Square-116.7426.70
top 20.4%65 / 255
5×51:21.931:33.88
top 20.7%65 / 345
Megaminx1:22.791:32.96
top 23.6%67 / 264
3×3 blindfolded2:58.11—
top 51.9%88 / 157
6×63:34.713:39.91
early days — 3 solves78 / 127
3×3 Fewest Moves55 moves—
early days — 1 solve108 / 115

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: 19.37Aficube A 2022: 15.88Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 8.29NR Hanukkah: Sq-1 & Skewb 2022: 8.09Puriminx C 2023: 9.45Israel Championship 2023: 10.11Cubing for Yuval 2023: 10.95Israel Winter Open A 2024: 8.27Weekend Cubing C Israel 2024: 8.73Israel Championship 2024: 9.45Cubing for Yuval 2024: 8.60Hannukubing Israel 2024: 8.04Israel Championship 2025: 7.17Israel Championship 2026: 8.94Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026: 8.707.1719.3716 Mar 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.

  • Roy Tamir — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Uri Roitgrund — met in 107 rounds, finished ahead 38 times
  • Itamar Turm — met in 107 rounds, finished ahead 20 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.