People · Israel
Yoav Cohen
Pyraminx · top 1.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022COHE09
Yoav Cohen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.18, set at Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17th in Israel. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since August 2022, he has put 366 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.83 in August 2022 to 10.33, a 50% improvement. Yoav 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.18 | 4.19 | top 1.5% | 17 / 957 | |
| 3×3 | 10.33 | 12.79 | top 8.4% | 230 / 2,022 | |
| 2×2 | 2.70 | 4.24 | top 10.9% | 216 / 1,401 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.18 | 1:18.05 | top 44.1% | 296 / 659 | |
| 5×5 | 2:45.01 | — | early days — 2 solves | 248 / 345 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 50.70 | 1:09.35 | top 77.4% | 517 / 658 | |
| Skewb | 16.13 | 23.50 | top 81.7% | 521 / 618 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 6:13.04 | — | top 88.0% | 135 / 157 | |
| Square-1 | 1:12.24 | — | early days — 2 solves | 234 / 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
- 8 Oct 2025Five personal bests in one day at Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025.
- 25 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Israel Championship 2025.
- 16 Feb 2024First sub-15 3×3: 12.95 at Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024.
- 16 Feb 2024Four personal bests in one day at Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024.
- 22 Dec 2022First sub-20 3×3: 17.06 at NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022.
- 22 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022.
Competitions
- NR Hanukkah B Israel 2025 · 17 Dec 2025
- Cubing for Yuval Israel 2025 · 8 Oct 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2025 · 25 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Haifa Cubing 2025 · 15 Apr 2025
- Cubing Carnival Israel 2025 · 16 Mar 2025
- Hannukubing Israel 2024 · 31 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing for Yuval 2024 · 21 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2024 · 18 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Israel Open 2024 · 24 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Weekend Cubing A Israel 2024 · 16 Feb 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022 · 22 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Kubiat HaGalil B 2022 · 13 Oct 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Israel Championship 2022 · 16 Aug 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.
- Netanel Pour — met in 85 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Yoav Atsmon — met in 79 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Erez Katz — met in 76 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
Targets move as he improves.