People · Israel
Yahal Pais
3×3 · top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018PAIS01
Yahal Pais has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.14, set at Israel Championship 2024, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 151st in Israel. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since April 2018, he has put 306 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.71 in October 2019 to 9.14, a 48% improvement. Yahal has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Israel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.14 | 11.65 | top 5.2% | 151 / 2,022 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:09.56 | — | top 16.0% | 31 / 157 | |
| 2×2 | 3.18 | 5.08 | top 16.4% | 308 / 1,401 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.63 | 8.82 | top 17.3% | 209 / 957 | |
| 4×4 | 46.94 | 57.44 | top 20.7% | 132 / 659 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.98 | 27.25 | top 23.2% | 167 / 658 | |
| Megaminx | 2:04.95 | 2:28.29 | top 48.5% | 136 / 263 | |
| 5×5 | 2:04.18 | 2:11.30 | top 51.9% | 171 / 345 | |
| 7×7 | 8:21.66 | — | early days — 1 solve | 92 / 99 | |
| Skewb | 22.82 | 26.52 | top 93.1% | 577 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 Aug 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.14 at Israel Championship 2024.
- 24 Apr 2024Four personal bests in one day at Israel Open 2024.
- 16 Aug 2022Five personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2022.
- 19 Apr 2022First sub-15 3×3: 13.01 at Aficube B 2022.
- 19 Apr 2022Three personal bests in one day at Aficube B 2022.
- 2 Apr 2018First competition: Israel Special 2018.
Competitions
- Mike's Cubes Israel 2026 · 5 Jul 2026
- Hannukubing Israel 2024 · 31 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2024 · 18 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Israel Open 2024 · 24 Apr 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- CinemaCube Israel 2024 · 24 Mar 2024
- Kubiat HaNegev A 2023 · 2 Apr 2023
- Puriminx A 2023 · 6 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Kubiat HaGalil A 2022 · 12 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Israel Championship 2022 · 16 Aug 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Aficube B 2022 · 19 Apr 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Hannukubing 2019 · 30 Dec 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Succah 2019 · 15 Oct 2019
- Israel Special 2018 · 2 Apr 2018
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.
- Ben Baron — met in 63 rounds, never finished ahead
- Dan Boharon — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead once
- Tuval Stone — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead 37 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
- A sub-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 9.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.