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Niv Dvorkin

3×3 · top 0.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023DVOR02

Niv Dvorkin has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.85, set at Haifa Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Israel. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since July 2023, he has put 684 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.24 in July 2023 to 5.85, a 43% improvement. Niv has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.4% of 284,439 all-time
5.85
signature single · Haifa Cubing 2025
684
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×35.857.18
top 0.4%11 / 2,022
2×21.111.91
top 0.79%14 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed9.8411.65
top 0.94%10 / 658
Skewb2.694.51
top 3.6%29 / 618
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves30.33
early days — 3 solves14 / 115
Pyraminx5.518.07
top 16.5%197 / 957
4×448.8853.57
top 23.3%140 / 659
Megaminx1:25.921:40.35
top 25.5%72 / 263
Clock11.7112.91
top 33.6%105 / 252
5×52:12.23—
early days — 2 solves187 / 345
Square-155.42—
early days — 2 solves207 / 248

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: 10.24Cubing for Yuval 2023: 8.51Weekend Cubing C Israel 2024: 7.51CinemaCube Israel 2024: 7.36Israel Open 2024: 7.14Mike's Cubes 2024: 6.46Israel Championship 2024: 6.58Cubing for Yuval 2024: 6.31Czech Championship 2024: 6.12Hannukubing Israel 2024: 6.38Haifa Cubing 2025: 5.85Israel Championship 2025: 6.26Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 6.00NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 6.36Cube4fun Nowa Sarzyna Summer 2026: 6.94Israel Championship 2026: 5.985.8510.2417 Jul 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 122 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 38 times
  • Itai Hershberg — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 66 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.