People · Netherlands
Douwe Besseling
Skewb · top 4.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018BESS01
Douwe Besseling has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.88, set at Dutch Masters 2019, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 45th in the Netherlands. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since May 2018, he has put 737 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.86 in May 2018 to 11.38, a 56% improvement. Douwe has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 2.88 | 7.47 | top 4.4% | 45 / 957 | |
| 2×2 | 2.65 | 4.22 | top 10.4% | 221 / 1,665 | |
| 3×3 | 11.38 | 13.88 | top 11.7% | 326 / 2,294 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.79 | 7.68 | top 11.9% | 197 / 1,283 | |
| 4×4 | 45.91 | 55.10 | top 19.4% | 177 / 1,000 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.54 | 25.98 | top 22.0% | 137 / 726 | |
| Megaminx | 1:22.71 | 1:36.60 | top 23.5% | 98 / 414 | |
| 5×5 | 2:16.04 | — | top 58.8% | 305 / 532 | |
| Square-1 | 53.56 | — | early days — 1 solve | 306 / 407 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 12 Oct 2019Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Open 2019.
- 21 Sep 2019Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Nationals 2019.
- 6 Apr 2019Five personal bests in one day at Dutch Masters 2019.
- 10 Feb 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.46 at Haarlem Cubing 2019.
- 10 Nov 2018Four personal bests in one day at Meppel Open 2018.
- 13 Oct 2018Four personal bests in one day at Dutch Open 2018.
Competitions
- Dutch Masters 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Veenendaal Open 2020 · 19 Sep 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Masters 2020 · 1 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020 · 4 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Rijswijk Open 2019 · 8 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Open 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2019 · 21 Sep 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Hoogland Open 2019 · 16 Aug 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019 · 29 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Breda Open 2019 · 8 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Masters 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 5 personal bests set
- Haarlem Cubing 2019 · 10 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019 · 5 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Meppel Open 2018 · 10 Nov 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2018 · 13 Oct 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 7 personal bests set
- Zwolle Open 2018 · 17 Aug 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Breda Open 2018 · 19 May 2018 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Olivier Vos — met in 155 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Daniël Kassab — met in 149 rounds, finished ahead once
- Mika Smulders — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
Targets move as he improves.