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Yoav Mandelzweig

Pyraminx · top 0.98% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022MAND01

Yoav Mandelzweig has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.90, set at Israel Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.98% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Israel. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2022, he has put 337 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.67 in March 2022 to 8.06, a 31% improvement. Yoav has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.98% of 129,321 all-time
1.90
signature single · Israel Championship 2022
337
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIsrael
Pyraminx1.902.63
top 0.98%14 / 957
3×38.069.43
top 2.9%92 / 2,022
2×21.862.92
top 3.9%70 / 1,401
3×3 one-handed17.3622.87
top 13.5%96 / 658
Skewb4.728.79
top 16.1%100 / 618
4×457.141:02.33
top 33.3%218 / 659
Square-125.6030.53
top 40.4%116 / 248
5×52:18.222:27.79
top 60.1%202 / 345
3×3 blindfolded4:11.81
early days — 1 solve116 / 157
Clock22.32
top 70.9%191 / 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

Kubiat Esther 2022: 11.67Aficube A 2022: 10.92Israel Championship 2022: 9.53Kubiat HaGalil B 2022: 9.79NR Hanukkah: BLD 2022: 9.20Puriminx B 2023: 8.75Israel Championship 2023: 8.06Cubing for Yuval 2023: 9.358.0611.6716 Mar 20221 Oct 2023

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.

  • Yoav Vishne — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
  • Niv Doron — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
  • Ben Matyas — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead 32 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.