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Noa Kotzer

2×2 · top 1.3% of 189,179 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022KOTZ03

Noa Kotzer has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.29, set at Mike's Cubes Israel 2025, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24th in Israel. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2022, she has put 720 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.78 in October 2022 to 7.14, a 66% improvement. Noa has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 189,179 all-time
1.29
signature single · Mike's Cubes Israel 2025
720
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
2×21.292.69
top 1.3%24 / 1,421
Skewb2.043.86
top 1.5%13 / 634
3×37.148.41
top 1.5%49 / 2,044
4×429.3738.84
top 2.5%20 / 659
Pyraminx3.295.36
top 4.7%60 / 973
3×3 one-handed13.1816.62
top 4.7%35 / 678
5×51:04.411:17.96
top 8.1%26 / 345
Megaminx1:00.481:09.05
top 10.3%34 / 264
Square-113.5519.58
top 13.1%40 / 255
Clock8.039.11
top 15.2%47 / 252
6×62:39.212:53.75
top 30.4%36 / 127

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 HaGalil A 2022: 20.78NR Hanukkah: BigCubes 2022: 14.85Israel Championship 2023: 10.77Israel Winter Open B 2024: 9.59Israel Open 2024: 7.83Mike's Cubes 2024: 9.38Israel Championship 2024: 7.91Hannukubing Israel 2024: 8.07Cubing Carnival Israel 2025: 8.36Haifa Cubing 2025: 7.70Israel Championship 2025: 7.14NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 8.80Mike's Cubes Israel 2026: 7.76Israel Championship 2026: 8.08Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026: 8.527.1420.7812 Oct 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 her.

  • Ben Baron — met in 144 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Amitai Ziv — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 73 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 20 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,031 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as she improves.