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Roey Ben Shmuel

3×3 · top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022BENS06

Roey Ben Shmuel has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.06, set at Israel Championship 2024, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 142nd in Israel. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2022, he has put 281 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.23 in October 2022 to 9.06, a 57% improvement. Roey has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.06
signature single · Israel Championship 2024
281
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×39.0612.04
top 5.0%142 / 2,022
2×22.844.14
top 12.4%240 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed20.5321.67
top 21.9%156 / 658
Pyraminx7.4511.20
top 31.6%356 / 957
4×41:01.271:06.53
top 37.8%253 / 659
Skewb15.3520.65
top 79.4%501 / 618

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: 21.23NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022: 14.11Cyprus Winter Cup 2023: 13.31Puriminx C 2023: 12.39Kubiat HaNegev B 2023: 11.36Israel Championship 2023: 12.13Cubing for Yuval 2023: 12.49Weekend Cubing C Israel 2024: 10.89Mike's Cubes 2024: 11.97Israel Championship 2024: 9.06Cubing for Yuval 2024: 11.219.0621.2312 Oct 202221 Oct 2024

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 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.