People · Israel
Yair Sochakov
Skewb · top 4.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022SOCH01
Yair Sochakov has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.87, set at Israel Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Israel. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2022, he has put 322 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.64 in October 2022 to 10.48, a 44% improvement. Yair has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Israel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 2.87 | 7.38 | top 4.4% | 33 / 618 | |
| 2×2 | 2.24 | 4.16 | top 6.5% | 132 / 1,401 | |
| 3×3 | 10.48 | 12.96 | top 8.9% | 239 / 2,022 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.26 | 26.14 | top 26.8% | 190 / 658 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.27 | 10.25 | top 30.1% | 337 / 957 | |
| 4×4 | 1:00.62 | 1:11.29 | top 37.1% | 250 / 659 | |
| Megaminx | 2:18.58 | — | early days — 3 solves | 167 / 263 | |
| 5×5 | 2:49.07 | — | early days — 2 solves | 253 / 345 | |
| Square-1 | 1:21.52 | — | early days — 1 solve | 240 / 248 |
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
- 15 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Haifa Cubing 2025.
- 18 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2024.
- 1 Oct 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cubing for Yuval 2023.
- 17 Jul 2023Three personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2023.
- 21 Dec 2022First sub-15 3×3: 11.27 at NR Hanukkah: Sq-1 & Skewb 2022.
- 21 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at NR Hanukkah: Sq-1 & Skewb 2022.
Competitions
- NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025 · 16 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Haifa Cubing 2025 · 15 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Hannukubing Israel 2024 · 31 Dec 2024
- Cubing for Yuval 2024 · 21 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2024 · 18 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing for Yuval 2023 · 1 Oct 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2023 · 17 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Kubiat HaNegev B 2023 · 3 Apr 2023
- Puriminx B 2023 · 7 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- NR Hanukkah: Sq-1 & Skewb 2022 · 21 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Kubiat HaGalil A 2022 · 12 Oct 2022
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 61 rounds, never finished ahead
- Erez Orlovsky — met in 58 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Noam Katz — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
Targets move as he improves.