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Anja Strydom

Clock · top 0.51% of 32,048 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023STRY02

Anja Strydom has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.78, set at Warm Up Lent 2026, puts her in the top 0.51% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in South Africa. Until March 2023, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since November 2023, she has put 1,403 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 29.87 in November 2023 to 10.02, a 66% improvement. Anja has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.51% of 32,048 all-time
2.78
signature single · Warm Up Lent 2026
1,403
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Clock2.784.44
top 0.51%1 / 148
2×21.572.91
top 2.5%20 / 1,510
Pyraminx2.634.83
top 2.5%12 / 946
Skewb2.734.42
top 3.8%15 / 438
3×310.0212.05
top 7.5%76 / 2,164
Square-113.3424.90
top 12.6%14 / 118
Megaminx1:13.211:26.54
top 17.6%26 / 266
4×445.4952.82
top 18.9%56 / 491
3×3 one-handed21.8329.53
top 25.5%72 / 467
5×51:37.161:47.20
top 33.2%51 / 221
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves—
early days — 3 solves21 / 53
6×64:12.94—
early days — 2 solves56 / 84

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

Dutch Nationals 2023: 29.87Leersum Algs 2024: 23.09Dutch Winter North 2024: 22.65Arnhem Open B 2024: 18.65Lente Spring 2024: 18.57Bigger in Breda 2024: 17.16Capelle Cubing 2024: 14.09Leersum Algs 24 Hours in 2024: 17.87Heerenveen Open 2024: 11.48Dutch Nationals 2024: 15.28Christmas Cubing Breda 2024: 12.36Alphen Cubing 2025: 12.26Leersum Squared 2025: 12.62Start in Veenendaal 2025: 11.69Lente in Lent 2025: 12.25Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025: 10.64Arnhem Open 2025: 11.63Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025: 12.65Beginner Utrecht 2025: 13.44Breda Open 2025: 10.09Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 10.86Take Your Time Ermelo 2025: 10.02Pakje Open in Lent 2025: 11.21Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025: 11.24Leersum Open 2026: 10.62Hurlubik's Cube Mouscron 2026: 10.70Classic Cubing Capelle 2026: 11.25Breda Open 2026: 10.11West-Fries Open 2026: 10.25Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 13.68Capelle Chaos B 2026: 11.8210.0229.8725 Nov 202323 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as she improves.