People · United States
Yaakov Benarrous
3×3 · top 25.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025BENA08
Yaakov Benarrous has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.18, set at Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026, puts him in the top 25.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,621st in the United States. Across 4 competitions since October 2025, he has put 47 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Yaakov has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 15.18 | 17.54 | top 25.0% | 13,621 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 1:06.67 | 1:12.74 | top 43.6% | 7,201 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.52 | 13.24 | top 49.2% | 14,273 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 5.87 | 6.34 | top 49.5% | 20,124 / 40,951 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Oct 2025First competition: Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025.
Competitions
- City of STEM LA 2026 · 26 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026 · 22 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025 · 8 Oct 2025
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.
- Liv Coverdale — met in 9 rounds, finished ahead once
- Paul McNaughton — met in 8 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Edwin Paxtor — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
- A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 6.67 away.
Targets move as he improves.