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Matanya Greenwald

3×3 · top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023GREE19

Matanya Greenwald has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.05, set at NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Israel. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since July 2023, he has put 1,181 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.81 in July 2023 to 6.05, a 56% improvement. Matanya has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 288,433 all-time
6.05
signature single · NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025
1,181
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×36.058.08
top 0.52%15 / 2,044
4×424.9029.07
top 0.69%4 / 659
3×3 one-handed9.5113.16
top 0.77%10 / 678
5×549.0553.97
top 1.5%4 / 345
Clock3.685.44
top 1.8%6 / 252
2×21.481.81
top 2.1%45 / 1,421
7×72:19.642:30.86
top 2.3%2 / 99
6×61:32.451:36.70
top 2.4%3 / 127
Pyraminx3.054.98
top 3.8%50 / 973
Megaminx47.2750.82
top 3.9%11 / 264
Square-110.1614.78
top 6.4%26 / 255
Skewb4.106.26
top 11.6%77 / 634
3×3 blindfolded1:26.112:26.96
top 21.6%43 / 157
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 47:22—
top 32.4%17 / 57
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 1 solve49 / 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

Israel Championship 2023: 13.81Cubing for Yuval 2023: 13.90Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024: 10.07Israel Open 2024: 8.32Israel Championship 2024: 8.66Around the Clock Israel 2024: 9.04Cubing for Yuval 2024: 8.75Hannukubing Israel 2024: 8.27Haifa Cubing 2025: 7.94Israel Championship 2025: 7.12Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 6.79NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 6.05Israel Championship 2026: 6.33Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026: 6.756.0513.9017 Jul 202328 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 272 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 237 rounds, finished ahead 70 times
  • Mark Sander — met in 227 rounds, finished ahead 78 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 4.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.