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Clara Verbraeken

3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019VERB02

Clara Verbraeken has been competing for 7 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.48, set at Brugge Beginners Open 2025, puts her in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Belgium. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since September 2019, she has put 1,536 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.32 in September 2019 to 9.48, a 45% improvement. Clara has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.48
signature single · Brugge Beginners Open 2025
1,536
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBelgium
3×39.4811.67
top 6.1%75 / 1,094
4×437.5241.69
top 9.3%34 / 459
2×22.554.90
top 9.4%93 / 777
Skewb4.387.54
top 13.6%57 / 394
Pyraminx5.627.58
top 17.2%126 / 589
5×51:17.681:25.65
top 17.3%33 / 246
Megaminx1:16.221:25.66
top 19.4%30 / 197
3×3 one-handed22.9627.93
top 28.7%77 / 314
6×62:43.272:50.31
top 32.6%30 / 119
Clock11.7013.62
top 33.5%57 / 180
7×74:17.204:29.28
top 36.8%24 / 91
Square-124.6229.35
top 38.4%40 / 150

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

Belgian Open 2019: 17.32Seraing Open 2019: 14.80Annuntia Open 2020: 13.83Seraing Open 2021: 11.86Annuntia Sunday Open 2022: 12.74Brugge Saturday Open 2022: 11.40Ganshoren Saturday Open 2022: 11.57Belgian Nationals 2022: 10.39Gijzegem Open 2022: 10.62Alphen Cubing 2023: 12.35Brugge Open 2023: 10.22Wommelgem Open 2023: 11.97Koersel Saturday Open 2023: 10.57Visé Saturday Open 2023: 10.39Belgian Nationals 2023: 12.07Geel Beginners Sunday 2024: 10.75Leuven Open 2024: 10.05Wommelgem Open 2024: 10.64Warm Up Wommelgem 2024: 9.89Visé Open Sunday 2024: 11.99Zottegem Saturday Open 2024: 11.83Belgian Nationals 2024: 11.19Beveren Saturday Open 2024: 11.23Hurlubiks Cube Mouscron 2025: 11.73Hasselt Saturday Open 2025: 10.48Brugge Beginners Open 2025: 9.48Visé Saturday Open 2025: 12.58Beveren Sunday Open 2025: 11.47Ranst Autumn 2025: 12.35Zottegem Open 2025: 10.83Belgian Nationals 2025: 13.17No Rush Hasselt 2026: 10.85Twist and Turn Ghent 2026: 10.81Wezemaal Open 2026: 11.56Warm Up Lent 2026: 10.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.519.4817.3228 Sep 201916 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.48 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 7.52 away.

Targets move as she improves.