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Jakob Van Hees

Pyraminx · top 22.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017HEES01

Jakob Van Hees has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 6.36, set at Oakville Limited Winter 2018, puts him in the top 22.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 961st in Canada. Across 10 competitions since March 2017, he has put 153 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.04 in March 2017 to 19.14, a 13% improvement. Jakob has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 22.7% of 129,321 all-time
6.36
signature single · Oakville Limited Winter 2018
153
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Pyraminx6.3610.18
top 22.7%961 / 4,858
Skewb6.459.70
top 29.3%711 / 2,907
3×319.1423.04
top 37.5%3,716 / 10,392
2×25.166.72
top 41.3%2,875 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed46.26
top 73.0%1,766 / 2,620
Megaminx3:07.01
early days — 2 solves950 / 1,375

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

London Limited Spring 2017: 22.04National Capital Region 2017: 25.25Newmarket Open 2017: 24.44Battle of Waterloo 2017: 24.40Pickering 2017: 24.66Oakville Limited Fall 2017: 24.77Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 20.79Pickering Spring 2018: 19.14Oakville Limited Spring 2018: 20.46Oakville Limited Fall 2018: 20.4919.1425.2525 Mar 201729 Sep 2018

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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.