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Nordarwish Akmal Bin Noor Ibrahim

5×5 · top 0.53% of 40,792 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019IBRA02

Nordarwish Akmal Bin Noor Ibrahim has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 43.92, set at gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.53% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Malaysia. Until November 2016, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since April 2019, he has put 964 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.98 in April 2019 to 6.28, a 48% improvement. Nordarwish has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.53% of 40,792 all-time
43.92
signature single · gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025
964
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 standingMalaysia
5×543.9249.97
top 0.53%5 / 617
7×71:59.462:08.23
top 0.54%3 / 188
6×61:19.821:24.64
top 0.57%2 / 232
4×424.4127.46
top 0.57%8 / 1,219
3×36.287.67
top 0.67%25 / 3,773
Megaminx36.6643.14
top 0.89%8 / 518
2×21.312.17
top 1.4%29 / 2,541
3×3 one-handed10.8613.65
top 1.7%22 / 1,327
Pyraminx3.254.27
top 4.5%83 / 1,723
Square-111.0214.14
top 8.0%36 / 364
Skewb4.365.35
top 13.4%144 / 1,053
Clock8.999.78
top 19.9%89 / 406
3×3 blindfolded1:57.612:26.23
early days — 3 solves49 / 169

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

Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2019: 11.98UiTM Perak Speedcubing Challenge 2019: 8.94Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 9.96Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2019: 9.21Malaysia Cube Championship 2019: 7.90Selangor Cube Open 2019: 8.79YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 6.38Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 6.83Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 6.54XMUM Cube Open 2023: 7.26Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2023: 6.68XMUM Cube Open 2025: 6.62Malaysia Newcomer 2025: 6.88gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025: 6.37Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 6.286.2811.9813 Apr 20191 Nov 2025

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 3.92 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 19.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.