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Erik Swiers

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 30.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017SWIE03

Erik Swiers has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 35 moves, set at Veenendaal Open 2018, puts him in the top 30.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 61st in the Netherlands. Across 7 competitions since December 2017, he has put 218 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. Erik has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 30.0% of 12,294 all-time
35 moves
signature single · Veenendaal Open 2018
218
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
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves
early days — 2 solves61 / 167
Pyraminx7.688.64
top 33.5%553 / 1,283
3×318.0121.13
top 34.1%936 / 2,294
2×24.796.38
top 36.6%805 / 1,665
Skewb8.6414.38
top 46.0%487 / 957
4×41:22.69
top 58.1%560 / 1,000
3×3 one-handed44.411:05.03
top 70.9%497 / 726
5×53:00.71
top 78.3%414 / 532
3×3 blindfolded4:55.37
early days — 2 solves107 / 132

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

Veenendaal Open 2018: 4.79Dutch Nationals 2018: 4.94Rijswijk Open 2018: 5.61Dutch Masters 2019: 6.11Dutch Nationals 2019: 5.67Dutch Masters 2020: 5.254.796.1123 Jun 20181 Feb 2020

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.68 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.