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Rafik Eskandar

Square-1 · top 1.7% of 25,272 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019RAGH04

Rafik Eskandar has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.95, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Egypt. Until June 2016, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since June 2019, he has put 1,940 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.26 in June 2019 to 8.53, a 75% improvement. Rafik has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 1.7% of 25,272 all-time
6.95
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023
1,940
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEgypt
Square-16.959.44
top 1.7%1 / 27
Clock4.205.08
top 2.7%1 / 21
2×21.823.16
top 3.7%6 / 346
3×38.539.93
top 3.8%8 / 509
4×431.5740.42
top 3.8%1 / 130
5×51:03.621:11.06
top 7.6%2 / 39
Pyraminx4.146.38
top 8.4%4 / 207
Megaminx1:01.801:11.17
top 10.9%3 / 50
6×62:05.072:07.50
top 13.3%1 / 16
Skewb4.675.19
top 15.7%3 / 77
3×3 one-handed19.2124.62
top 18.4%9 / 96
7×73:40.804:03.00
top 23.8%3 / 12
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves—
early days — 2 solves1 / 8

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

Smart Cubers Egypt 2019: 34.26Egyptian Championship 2019: 21.42Cubing Egypt Winter 2020: 16.10Back to İstanbul 2022: 12.92İzmir Open 2022: 10.22Bursa Open 2022: 10.50İstanbul Spring 2022: 11.00Ankara Summer 2022: 11.16Edukent Weekend 2022: 10.02Cube Revenge İstanbul 2022: 8.67Sınav Cube Weekend 2022: 9.25İstanbul Fall 2022: 9.90Qubes Don' Lie İstanbul 2022: 9.23Qubes Don' Lie Ankara 2022: 9.39Atatürk Cube Weekend 2022: 8.63New York Yopen 2022: 10.44West Chester Fall 2022: 9.40Potomac Spring 2023: 9.47Cougar Qualifier 2023: 9.32Clash at Carlisle Spring 2023: 8.95Wilmington Warmup 2023: 8.67CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 9.64CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.05Newark's On Track 2023: 9.54Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.66Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 8.82Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 10.26GCU Winter 2024: 9.69Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 10.79New-Cumberland County 2024: 9.34It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 10.96Berwick Spring 2024: 9.38Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 8.53Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 9.58Cumberland County Fall 2024: 9.60New-Cumberland County 2025: 11.04Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.158.5334.2622 Jun 20193 Jul 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-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.