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Jaméan Groenewald

2×2 · top 7.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014GROE01

Jaméan Groenewald has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.30, set at Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 62nd in South Africa. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2014, he has put 628 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.58 in November 2014 to 10.04, a 73% improvement. He has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 7.0% of 186,767 all-time
2.30
signature single · Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017
628
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×22.303.89
top 7.0%62 / 1,510
3×310.0412.27
top 7.6%77 / 2,164
4×443.9949.24
top 17.0%48 / 491
Square-115.9121.62
top 18.5%21 / 118
5×51:19.671:27.18
top 18.8%26 / 221
3×3 one-handed22.7728.47
top 28.1%82 / 467
Pyraminx7.3010.95
top 30.3%230 / 946
Megaminx1:38.791:45.44
top 33.9%55 / 266
6×62:50.592:58.75
top 36.4%23 / 84
7×74:24.954:46.70
top 39.4%19 / 69
Clock15.2815.91
top 49.0%67 / 148
Skewb9.7914.34
top 53.6%209 / 438

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

Johannesburg 2014: 37.58Tuks Open 2015: 25.03Tuks Winter 2015: 20.56Pretoria Science Week 2015: 16.00Johannesburg Open 2015: 21.33Cape Town Open 2015: 16.77Big 'n Weird Pretoria 2016: 11.96Johannesburg Open 2016: 13.84Johannesburg 2016: 12.81Gauteng Winter 2017: 16.66Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 12.26Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 11.32Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 10.94Cubestuff Challenge Q4 Menlyn Park 2024: 11.22CuBeaulieu Craze 2024: 10.78CubingZA Nationals 2025: 10.0410.0437.5823 Nov 201426 Apr 2025

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 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.