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Waseem Hoosain

3×3 · top 0.57% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019HOOS01

Waseem Hoosain has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.13, set at CubeCo Coastal Cubing KZN 2025, puts him in the top 0.57% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in South Africa. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since April 2019, he has put 1,037 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.68 in April 2019 to 6.13, a 48% improvement. Waseem has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.57% of 288,433 all-time
6.13
signature single · CubeCo Coastal Cubing KZN 2025
1,037
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×36.137.55
top 0.57%7 / 2,187
3×3 one-handed9.5612.82
top 0.79%3 / 473
4×426.5631.44
top 1.2%2 / 495
2×22.173.23
top 6.0%56 / 1,525
Pyraminx3.717.53
top 6.3%45 / 958
5×51:01.971:04.52
top 6.7%8 / 225
Megaminx57.941:04.11
top 9.0%13 / 268
6×62:08.932:24.26
top 15.0%10 / 87
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves40.00
top 20.4%10 / 54
Clock11.6713.55
top 33.3%46 / 153
Skewb6.9910.75
top 33.7%126 / 444
7×74:27.805:04.45
top 40.5%22 / 73
Square-134.6747.88
top 57.9%69 / 121

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

KwaZulu-Natal 2019: 11.68Durban Summer Warm-up 2021: 7.15Cape Town Summer 2022: 8.26Gauteng Autumn 2022: 7.23CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 8.48Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 6.56CubeCo Durban Summer 2022: 7.10Dolphin Coast Autumn 2023: 6.89CubingZA National Championship 2023: 7.15Durban Winter 2024: 7.71Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 6.85CubeCo Durban Summer 2024: 6.72CubeCo Coastal Cubing KZN 2025: 6.13CubingZA Nationals 2025: 6.64CubeCo Durban Spring 2025: 6.72Howick Spring 2025: 6.51GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 6.406.1311.6827 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 1.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.