People · Netherlands
Elise Knobbe
Pyraminx · top 6.9% of 130,891 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024KNOB01
Elise Knobbe has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.83, set at Take Your Time Ermelo 2025, puts her in the top 6.9% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 113th in the Netherlands. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2024, she has put 184 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 14.48 in January 2024 to 11.56, a 20% improvement. Elise has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.83 | 5.87 | top 6.9% | 113 / 1,296 | |
| 3×3 | 11.56 | 12.94 | top 12.4% | 351 / 2,318 | |
| 2×2 | 3.19 | 4.65 | top 16.6% | 371 / 1,680 | |
| 4×4 | 43.96 | 48.12 | top 17.0% | 166 / 1,009 | |
| Megaminx | 1:13.54 | 1:24.21 | top 17.8% | 76 / 417 | |
| Square-1 | 22.91 | 35.66 | top 34.6% | 130 / 407 | |
| Skewb | 7.39 | 9.16 | top 36.8% | 387 / 968 | |
| 5×5 | 1:42.81 | 1:50.58 | top 37.5% | 196 / 542 | |
| Clock | 15.67 | — | top 50.6% | 245 / 479 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 43.80 | — | top 70.3% | 497 / 737 |
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
- 30 May 2026Seven personal bests in one day at Meppel Mayhem 2026.
- 18 Oct 2025Seven personal bests in one day at Take Your Time Ermelo 2025.
- 14 Jan 2024First competition: Dutch Winter North 2024. A 16.54 3×3 single to start from.
- 14 Jan 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.48 at Dutch Winter North 2024.
Competitions
- Meppel Mayhem 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 7 personal bests set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 7 personal bests set
- Heerenveen Open 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Winter North 2024 · 14 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests 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 her.
- Florine Zuur — met in 36 rounds, never finished ahead
- Per Noordstrand — met in 36 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lars Helling — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 1.56 away.
Targets move as she improves.