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Lubanzi Ndebele

3×3 · top 36.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025NDEB01

Lubanzi Ndebele has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.67, set at Cape Cubes Winter 2025, puts him in the top 36.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 489th in South Africa. Across 2 competitions since May 2025, he has put 24 official solves on the record across two events. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.59 in May 2025 to 18.67, a 17% improvement. Lubanzi has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 36.1% of 284,439 all-time
18.67
signature single · Cape Cubes Winter 2025
24
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×318.6725.58
top 36.1%489 / 2,164
Pyraminx17.1422.11
top 88.0%796 / 946

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

Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025: 22.59Cape Cubes Winter 2025: 18.6718.6722.5924 May 20252 Aug 2025

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 3.67 away.
  • A sub-15 Pyraminx single — 105,805 people have one; it is 2.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.