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Rotem Kagan

Pyraminx · top 0.22% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022KAGA01

Rotem Kagan has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.31, set at Episode III - Revenge of the Minx Israel 2025, puts him in the top 0.22% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Israel. Until June 2017, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since January 2022, he has put 777 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.44 in January 2022 to 6.78, a 28% improvement. Rotem has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.22% of 129,321 all-time
1.31
signature single · Episode III - Revenge of the Minx Israel 2025
777
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
Pyraminx1.311.95
top 0.22%4 / 957
3×36.787.78
top 1.1%36 / 2,022
2×22.013.25
top 4.8%97 / 1,401
4×435.8039.79
top 7.5%53 / 659
3×3 one-handed14.8417.38
top 7.8%55 / 658
Megaminx1:09.821:15.75
top 15.5%49 / 263
5×51:23.741:27.53
top 22.2%72 / 345
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves39.00
top 30.0%43 / 115
6×63:05.333:13.12
top 43.6%62 / 127
Clock15.0120.39
top 48.0%142 / 252
7×75:27.875:32.88
early days — 3 solves60 / 99
3×3 blindfolded3:32.22—
early days — 1 solve100 / 157

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

Wakefield Open 2022: 9.44Aficube A 2022: 9.27Kubiat Ruth 2022: 8.81Ecuador Nationals 2022: 8.07Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 8.76NR Hanukkah: BigCubes 2022: 8.40Puriminx B 2023: 7.19Kubiat HaNegev A 2023: 6.81Israel Championship 2023: 6.82Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.29Cubing for Yuval 2023: 7.40Israel Winter Open A 2024: 7.75Weekend Cubing C Israel 2024: 7.76Israel Open 2024: 6.78Israel Championship 2024: 7.71Around the Clock Israel 2024: 8.39Cubing Carnival Israel 2025: 7.65Israel Championship 2025: 8.58NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025: 8.716.789.4429 Jan 202216 Dec 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.

  • Yoav Vishne — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
  • Ben Baron — met in 91 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.