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Mark Sander

3×3 · top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023SAND02

Mark Sander has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.63, set at Haifa Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in Israel. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since March 2023, he has put 1,519 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.29 in March 2023 to 5.63, a 54% improvement. Mark has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time
5.63
signature single · Haifa Cubing 2025
1,519
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×35.637.65
top 0.3%8 / 2,022
2×21.001.52
top 0.55%9 / 1,401
Pyraminx1.812.65
top 0.84%9 / 957
3×3 one-handed10.0712.25
top 1.1%12 / 658
4×426.5529.57
top 1.2%8 / 659
Skewb2.023.72
top 1.4%12 / 618
5×549.7255.22
top 1.7%5 / 345
3×3 blindfolded21.2628.15
top 1.7%4 / 157
Clock4.545.32
top 3.4%9 / 252
Square-18.6110.86
top 3.9%15 / 248
6×61:39.841:44.93
top 4.0%8 / 127
Megaminx48.1954.58
top 4.3%13 / 263
3×3 Multi-Blind20 of 23 cubes · 57:46—
top 6.8%2 / 57
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves29.00
top 8.0%14 / 115
4×4 blindfolded3:06.264:20.24
top 8.5%2 / 27
7×73:02.763:07.32
top 11.4%13 / 99
5×5 blindfolded7:22.43—
top 11.8%2 / 14

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

Puriminx B 2023: 12.29Kubiat HaNegev B 2023: 9.46Mike's Cubes 2023: 9.25Cubing for Yuval 2023: 8.51Israel Winter Open A 2024: 7.72Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024: 8.19CinemaCube Israel 2024: 7.78Israel Open 2024: 6.48Mike's Cubes 2024: 7.79Israel Championship 2024: 7.41Around the Clock Israel 2024: 7.12Cubing for Yuval 2024: 6.36Cubing Carnival Israel 2025: 7.40Haifa Cubing 2025: 5.63Israel Championship 2025: 6.98Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 6.91NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 7.01Cyprus Nationals 2025: 6.92Israel Championship 2026: 6.445.6312.297 Mar 202325 Aug 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 330 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 286 rounds, finished ahead 114 times
  • Amitai Ziv — met in 268 rounds, finished ahead 204 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.