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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.

Skewb
best event — top 4.4% of 73,281 all-time
2.88
signature single · Dutch Masters 2019
737
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
Skewb2.887.47
top 4.4%45 / 957
2×22.654.22
top 10.4%221 / 1,665
3×311.3813.88
top 11.7%326 / 2,294
Pyraminx4.797.68
top 11.9%197 / 1,283
4×445.9155.10
top 19.4%177 / 1,000
3×3 one-handed20.5425.98
top 22.0%137 / 726
Megaminx1:22.711:36.60
top 23.5%98 / 414
5×52:16.04
top 58.8%305 / 532
Square-153.56
early days — 1 solve306 / 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

Breda Open 2018: 25.86Dutch Nationals 2018: 17.71Dutch Open 2018: 18.69Meppel Open 2018: 15.87Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 16.43Haarlem Cubing 2019: 14.46Dutch Masters 2019: 14.26Breda Open 2019: 12.86Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 13.26Hoogland Open 2019: 13.40Dutch Nationals 2019: 11.90Dutch Open 2019: 12.70Rijswijk Open 2019: 11.38Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 12.62Dutch Masters 2020: 12.56Veenendaal Open 2020: 11.6511.3825.8619 May 201819 Sep 2020

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 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.