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Yehonatan Haim Polak

3×3 · top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023POLA03

Yehonatan Haim Polak has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.15, set at Mike's Cubes Israel 2026, puts him in the top 0.58% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Israel. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since July 2023, he has put 855 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.62 in July 2023 to 6.15, a 55% improvement. Yehonatan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time
6.15
signature single · Mike's Cubes Israel 2026
855
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
3×36.157.80
top 0.58%17 / 2,022
2×21.031.46
top 0.62%12 / 1,401
Pyraminx1.853.41
top 0.9%11 / 957
Skewb1.913.21
top 1.2%10 / 618
4×430.2133.28
top 3.0%25 / 659
3×3 one-handed12.0215.38
top 3.0%24 / 658
5×556.611:03.53
top 4.0%16 / 345
Clock5.896.76
top 6.9%22 / 252
6×61:49.541:56.49
top 7.0%14 / 127
7×72:50.863:10.52
top 8.1%11 / 99
Square-112.0214.92
top 9.9%33 / 248
Megaminx59.881:08.83
top 9.9%32 / 263
3×3 blindfolded1:44.86—
early days — 2 solves56 / 157

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

Israel Championship 2023: 13.62Cubing for Yuval 2023: 9.75Israel Championship 2024: 8.08Cubing for Yuval 2024: 6.60Hannukubing Israel 2024: 7.86Cubing Carnival Israel 2025: 7.99Haifa Cubing 2025: 7.69Yeruham Cubing 2025: 7.18Israel Championship 2025: 8.04Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025: 7.05NR Hanukkah B Israel 2025: 7.40Mike's Cubes Israel 2026: 6.15Israel Championship 2026: 6.486.1513.6217 Jul 202325 Aug 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.

  • Ben Baron — met in 180 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • Netanel Pour — met in 167 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
  • Roy Tamir — met in 156 rounds, finished ahead 36 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.