People · Israel
Yakov Alexandrovich
3×3 · top 1.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023ALEX16
Yakov Alexandrovich has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.14, set at Israel Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 49th in Israel. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since July 2023, he has put 434 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.42 in July 2023 to 7.14, a 15% improvement. Yakov has entered twelve 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 | 7.14 | 9.04 | top 1.5% | 49 / 2,044 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.28 | 7.29 | top 4.6% | 59 / 973 | |
| 2×2 | 2.26 | 3.65 | top 6.7% | 139 / 1,421 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.76 | 20.79 | top 7.7% | 52 / 678 | |
| 4×4 | 38.92 | 44.65 | top 10.9% | 75 / 659 | |
| 5×5 | 1:16.01 | 1:22.79 | top 16.2% | 51 / 345 | |
| Megaminx | 1:28.47 | 1:42.86 | top 27.3% | 75 / 264 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:15.65 | — | top 38.6% | 77 / 157 | |
| 6×6 | 3:02.19 | 3:19.39 | top 42.1% | 58 / 127 | |
| 7×7 | 4:53.54 | 4:59.05 | top 48.9% | 47 / 99 | |
| Clock | 15.67 | 18.79 | top 50.6% | 149 / 252 |
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
- 31 Dec 2024Three personal bests in one day at Hannukubing Israel 2024.
- 18 Aug 2024Five personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2024.
- 24 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at Israel Open 2024.
- 17 Jul 2023First competition: Israel Championship 2023. A 10.53 3×3 single to start from.
- 17 Jul 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.42 at Israel Championship 2023.
- 17 Jul 2023Four personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2023.
Competitions
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2026 · 28 Sep 2026
- Israel Championship 2026 · 25 Aug 2026
- NR Hanukkah A Israel 2025 · 16 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025 · 8 Oct 2025
- Israel Championship 2025 · 25 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Yeruham Cubing 2025 · 31 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Haifa Cubing 2025 · 15 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Hannukubing Israel 2024 · 31 Dec 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing for Yuval 2024 · 21 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2024 · 18 Aug 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Israel Open 2024 · 24 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2023 · 17 Jul 2023 — 4 personal bests set
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 100 rounds, never finished ahead
- Itai Hershberg — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
- Roy Tamir — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
Targets move as he improves.