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Noa Kotzer

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 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 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23rd in Israel. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since October 2022, she has put 670 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.78 in October 2022 to 7.14, a 66% improvement. Noa has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.29
signature single · Mike's Cubes Israel 2025
670
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
2×21.292.69
top 1.3%23 / 1,401
Skewb2.043.86
top 1.5%13 / 618
3×37.148.41
top 1.5%49 / 2,022
4×429.3738.84
top 2.5%20 / 659
Pyraminx3.295.36
top 4.6%58 / 957
3×3 one-handed13.1816.62
top 4.7%35 / 658
5×51:04.411:17.96
top 8.0%26 / 345
Megaminx1:00.481:09.05
top 10.3%34 / 263
Square-113.5519.58
top 13.1%40 / 248
Clock8.039.11
top 15.3%47 / 252
6×62:39.212:53.75
top 30.3%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: 8.087.1420.7812 Oct 202225 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 her.

  • Ben Baron — met in 134 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Amitai Ziv — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 66 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 131 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as she improves.