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Heinrich de Lange

Megaminx · top 0.7% of 35,351 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019LANG03

Heinrich de Lange has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 35.25, set at Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025, puts him in the top 0.7% of the 35,351 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in South Africa. Until August 2016, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since May 2019, he has put 1,264 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.46 in May 2019 to 7.86, a 52% improvement. Heinrich has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.7% of 35,351 all-time
35.25
signature single · Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025
1,264
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Megaminx35.2540.57
top 0.7%1 / 268
4×429.3335.49
top 2.5%11 / 495
3×37.869.37
top 2.6%25 / 2,187
3×3 one-handed12.4016.00
top 3.6%11 / 473
Pyraminx3.155.68
top 4.2%21 / 958
Skewb2.884.43
top 4.4%23 / 444
2×22.013.18
top 4.8%44 / 1,525
5×51:02.541:12.58
top 7.0%11 / 225
6×61:57.562:02.75
top 10.1%7 / 87
7×73:06.133:12.52
top 12.2%7 / 73
Clock8.128.72
top 15.7%22 / 153
3×3 blindfolded1:11.09—
top 16.5%11 / 54
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves35.00
top 17.5%9 / 54
Square-119.1323.95
top 26.0%30 / 121
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 8 cubes · 43:47—
top 31.4%10 / 28
4×4 blindfolded7:59.80—
early days — 2 solves7 / 16

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

Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 16.46Cape Town Spring 2019: 12.96Cape Town Summer 2020: 10.49Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 10.16CubeCo Durban Winter Warmup 2022: 9.83Green School Paarl Open 2022: 9.46Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 8.69Just Cube Joburg 2022: 9.90Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2022: 9.11Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2023: 8.76CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 8.75Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 8.09Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 9.06Speedcubes Bloemfontein 2024: 8.76Bold Solvin' Bloemfontein 2025: 10.64Cubestuff Centurion Q3 2025: 7.86Cubing Bash Bloemfontein 2026: 9.20Cubestuff Grand Challenge - The Leonardo 2026: 9.46GAN WCA African Championship 2026: 7.927.8616.4617 May 201924 Sep 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 76 people have one; it is 5.25 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 4.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.