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Zakaria Abozena

3×3 · top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023ABOZ01

Zakaria Abozena has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.38, set at Cubing at Iowa State 2025, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,217th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since February 2023, he has put 522 official solves on the record across twelve 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 16.81 in February 2023 to 9.38, a 44% improvement. Zakaria has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.38
signature single · Cubing at Iowa State 2025
522
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 standingUnited States
3×39.3811.16
top 5.8%3,217 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.187.55
top 8.6%2,205 / 28,708
2×22.624.54
top 10.1%3,980 / 40,951
4×445.7448.01
top 19.2%2,921 / 19,072
5×51:20.931:28.63
top 19.9%1,553 / 9,401
Megaminx1:24.831:33.69
top 24.8%1,711 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed22.2428.67
top 26.7%3,446 / 15,683
Skewb6.639.00
top 30.7%5,070 / 18,907
Clock12.0614.80
top 35.2%2,795 / 8,927
6×62:59.253:01.00
top 40.8%1,493 / 4,196
7×75:35.39—
early days — 3 solves1,826 / 3,184
Square-137.3055.37
top 61.8%4,075 / 6,743

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

Dubuque Winter 2023: 16.81SPAMtown Cubing 2023: 14.62Minnesota Cube Melt 2023: 14.72Sioux Falls Summer 2023: 13.36Sioux City Sunday 2023: 11.95Get to Work Chicagoland 2023: 14.26Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2023: 13.35Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024: 11.95Algs in Ankeny 2024: 13.96Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.14SPAMtown III MN 2024: 11.56Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2025: 10.64Cubing at Iowa State 2025: 9.38Algs in Ankeny 2025: 10.50Iowa Winter Cooldown 2026: 10.239.3816.815 Feb 202328 Feb 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.38 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.