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Osman Badroodin

3×3 one-handed · top 0.58% of 74,621 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019BADR01

Osman Badroodin has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.14, set at Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.58% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in South Africa. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since January 2019, he has put 2,233 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.36 in January 2019 to 7.05, a 78% improvement. Osman has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.58% of 74,621 all-time
9.14
signature single · Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024
2,233
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×3 one-handed9.1412.53
top 0.58%1 / 473
3×37.058.69
top 1.4%14 / 2,187
4×427.8731.55
top 1.7%6 / 495
Square-17.109.09
top 2.0%2 / 121
2×21.483.03
top 2.1%17 / 1,525
5×551.3157.78
top 2.2%3 / 225
Megaminx49.2858.40
top 4.8%7 / 268
Pyraminx3.435.57
top 5.2%30 / 958
6×61:47.541:52.75
top 6.4%3 / 87
Skewb3.295.17
top 6.6%27 / 444
7×72:49.922:54.22
top 7.9%3 / 73
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves31.00
top 8.0%5 / 54
Clock10.4712.15
top 27.2%35 / 153
3×3 blindfolded3:52.11—
top 66.2%30 / 54

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

Gauteng Summer 2019: 31.36Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 19.34Gauteng Autumn 2022: 9.09Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 8.15CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 10.03Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 8.98Just Cube Joburg 2022: 11.38Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 8.96CubingZA National Championship 2023: 8.16Pretoria Spring Afternoon 2023: 8.14Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 8.00Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 7.90Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 8.25Benoni Cubing Comeback 2024: 9.33Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 8.44Inni-Horie-Fees 2024: 8.73Cubestuff Challenge Q4 Menlyn Park 2024: 8.40CuBeaulieu Craze 2024: 8.28Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Hotel Q1 2025: 7.70CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 8.70CubingZA Nationals 2025: 7.13Beginner & Blind Johannesburg 2025: 8.02Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 8.44Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 7.13Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 7.99Cubestuff Q4 Zwartkop 2025: 8.37Merry Twistmas Lynnwood 2025: 8.84Cubestuff Centurion Q1 2026: 7.58Cubestuff Centurion Q2 2026: 7.49Cubestuff Grand Challenge - The Leonardo 2026: 8.04Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 7.05GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 7.237.0531.365 Jan 201924 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.