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Chris Van Der Brink

Clock · top 0.42% of 32,048 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016BRIN04

Chris Van Der Brink has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.70, set at Rosemount Side Events 2024, puts him in the top 0.42% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42nd in the United States. Until June 2023, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 97 competitions since November 2016, he has put 5,160 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.84 in November 2016 to 7.06, a 69% improvement. Chris has entered 97 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.42% of 32,048 all-time
2.70
signature single · Rosemount Side Events 2024
5,160
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock2.703.61
top 0.42%42 / 8,927
Pyraminx1.552.20
top 0.48%150 / 28,708
3×37.069.77
top 1.4%855 / 59,724
2×21.353.16
top 1.5%619 / 40,951
4×431.5438.37
top 3.8%615 / 19,072
Skewb2.784.20
top 4.0%619 / 18,907
5×559.641:05.96
top 5.3%439 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed14.1118.36
top 6.3%874 / 15,683
Square-110.9016.43
top 7.8%565 / 6,743
6×61:52.402:01.19
top 8.1%278 / 4,196
7×73:04.693:12.96
top 11.8%322 / 3,184
Megaminx1:08.031:18.50
top 14.5%981 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded2:28.083:02.47
top 42.7%907 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 26:35—
early days — 3 solves430 / 731
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves44.00
top 59.0%1,251 / 2,040
4×4 blindfolded21:09.00—
early days — 1 solve396 / 440

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

Cubetcha 2016: 22.84KCubing Winter 2017: 19.16Iowa State Spring 2017: 17.68South Omaha Speedsolve 2017: 17.31CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 16.89Heartland Championships 2017: 14.49September Speedcubing 2017: 15.26KCubing Fall 2017: 16.27CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 14.56CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.78Sioux Falls Summer 2018: 12.99BarbeCubing Fall 2018: 11.08Cubetcha 2018: 13.37Sioux Falls Winter 2019: 12.00CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2019: 10.73Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 12.57Virtual Cubing 2019: 10.41CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2019: 10.45Minnesota Qualifier 2019: 10.86Sioux Fall 2019: 12.16North Liberty 2019: 10.07Minnesota Cube Days 2020: 9.48Cubetcha B 2021: 10.26Sioux Falls Winter 2021: 8.74North Star Cubing Challenge 2022: 10.34Minnesota Cube Melt 2022: 10.66CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 9.30Sioux Falls Spring 2022: 9.23Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.52CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 9.15Side Events Minnesota 2022: 8.91Cubetcha 2022: 7.81Rochester Fall 2022: 9.23Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2022: 7.83Race the Clock Minnesota 2022: 10.21North Star Cubing Challenge 2023: 9.50Dubuque Winter 2023: 9.35SPAMtown Cubing 2023: 9.31Nebraska Heartland Warmup 2023: 7.93FargoDome 2023: 8.71Minnesota Cube Melt 2023: 9.03Sioux Falls Summer 2023: 7.19Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2023: 8.96Sioux Falls Saturday 2023: 8.17Sioux City Sunday 2023: 9.11CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.87Minnesota Cube Day 2023: 7.06North Woods 2023: 8.45SPAMtown II 2023: 9.60Side Events Minnesota 2023: 9.51Race the Clock Minnesota 2023: 9.23North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 9.60Elite in Eagan 2024: 8.95Algs in Ankeny 2024: 8.72Going Fast in Grandview 2024: 9.08New Ulm Reboot 2024: 9.15Nebraska Championship 2024: 7.75Minnesota Slice 2024: 8.97Council Bluffs Cubing Buff 2024: 9.41CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 9.10CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 10.03Minnesota Warm Up 2024: 8.30Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.47Missouri Championship 2024: 9.28Rosemount Side Events 2024: 7.64Grand Forks 2024: 11.52Cubetcha MN 2024: 10.45Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024: 8.75SPAMtown III MN 2024: 9.15Minnesota Championship 2024: 8.74Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2024: 9.23North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2025: 8.47Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2025: 7.73Cubing at Iowa State 2025: 8.65Racing in Rosemount 2025: 7.61South Dakota Playhouse 2025: 10.02St. Ansgar 2025: 9.55Nebraska Championship 2025: 8.57Minnesota Cube Melt 2025: 7.97Kansas City Side Events 2025: 9.02Moorhead Madness 2025: 8.49Algs in Ankeny 2025: 8.41Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 8.72Cubing in the Cornfields IA 2025: 9.34Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.86CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 8.68Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025: 9.16Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2025: 8.55NxNebraska 2025: 8.63Eau Clock Wisconsin 2026: 9.23Nebraska Championship 2026: 8.96Minnesota Cube Melt 2026: 9.32State Hunting Calls for Sioux Falls 2026: 9.017.0622.845 Nov 20165 Sep 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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.