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Jesper Swinkels

2×2 · top 4.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017SWIN01

Jesper Swinkels has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.98, set at Spanish Championship 2019, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 102nd in the Netherlands. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2017, he has put 450 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Jesper has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.98
signature single · Spanish Championship 2019
450
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×21.984.03
top 4.6%102 / 1,665
Skewb3.495.59
top 7.7%77 / 957
3×310.6413.30
top 9.4%261 / 2,294
Pyraminx4.358.18
top 9.4%157 / 1,283
Square-114.5517.47
top 15.4%50 / 407
3×3 one-handed18.8125.20
top 17.3%109 / 726
4×456.061:04.65
top 32.0%303 / 1,000
5×52:26.06
top 64.0%329 / 532
Megaminx3:00.12
top 74.4%340 / 414
Clock38.9741.94
top 92.7%434 / 466

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

Madrid Open 2017: 11.79Spanish Championship 2017: 12.62WCA European Championship 2018: 12.59Dutch Nationals 2018: 10.71Spanish Championship 2018: 11.98Spanish Championship 2019: 10.64Mallorca Open 2022: 12.6210.6412.6225 Mar 201723 Jul 2022

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.