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Kai Vermeulen

2×2 · top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023VERM01

Kai Vermeulen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.59, set at Wiltshire Summer 2025, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 191st in the United Kingdom. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since January 2023, he has put 1,551 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.03 in January 2023 to 8.05, a 79% improvement. Kai has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.59
signature single · Wiltshire Summer 2025
1,551
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×21.592.40
top 2.6%191 / 4,895
3×38.059.84
top 2.9%234 / 6,689
Pyraminx2.807.27
top 3.0%115 / 3,656
4×430.8136.96
top 3.3%80 / 2,071
Megaminx48.9853.78
top 4.7%64 / 966
3×3 one-handed14.1119.55
top 6.3%127 / 1,851
Skewb3.925.48
top 10.3%235 / 2,421
5×51:10.991:16.76
top 12.3%167 / 1,151
Square-116.3119.09
top 19.3%191 / 778
Clock9.5910.89
top 23.1%317 / 1,232
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
early days — 3 solves108 / 372
6×62:32.072:39.50
top 26.7%161 / 548
7×74:15.794:59.83
top 36.4%173 / 459
3×3 blindfolded7:32.38—
early days — 1 solve302 / 311

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

Wiltshire Winter 2023: 38.03Wiltshire Spring 2023: 32.14Wiltshire Summer 2023: 31.58Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 21.36Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 17.51Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 17.16Wiltshire December 2023: 12.87Bristol Winter 2024: 13.20Wiltshire February 2024: 13.05Wiltshire March 2024: 11.96Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 10.56Bolton Summer 2024: 10.17Chichester Summer 2024: 11.09Kewbz UK Open 2024: 10.49Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 9.96Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 9.29Wiltshire November 2024: 9.62Bristol Winter Open 2024: 10.08Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 9.22Wiltshire Spring 2025: 10.01Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 10.40Bristol June 2025: 9.38Wiltshire Summer 2025: 8.75Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 10.17Bristol August 2025: 9.18Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 9.14Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 8.89Wiltshire Spring 2026: 8.05Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 8.27Bristol June 2026: 8.86Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 9.818.0538.037 Jan 202328 Aug 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.