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Kyle Van Straaten

2×2 · top 0.31% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017STRA03

Kyle Van Straaten has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.86, set at UBC Open 2020, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Canada. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 71 competitions since June 2017, he has put 3,196 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.88 in June 2017 to 6.02, a 76% improvement. Kyle has entered 71 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.31% of 186,767 all-time
0.86
signature single · UBC Open 2020
3,196
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×20.861.95
top 0.31%20 / 7,173
3×36.027.51
top 0.49%38 / 10,392
Pyraminx2.133.77
top 1.4%47 / 4,858
Skewb2.073.60
top 1.6%20 / 2,907
4×432.6137.87
top 4.7%106 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed14.7218.67
top 7.5%158 / 2,620
Megaminx1:02.841:13.74
top 11.4%104 / 1,375
5×51:10.261:18.62
top 11.8%141 / 1,499
Clock8.2610.13
top 16.5%128 / 1,029
Square-117.3023.94
top 21.6%180 / 952
6×62:29.022:32.78
top 25.1%127 / 665
7×74:02.394:26.02
top 31.6%132 / 503
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
top 62.5%182 / 283

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

Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 24.88Northwest Championships 2017: 21.32Puget Sound Fall 2017: 15.88SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 13.54Whistler Open 2017: 15.68Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 16.50Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 10.67Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 10.83Chiawana Cubing 2018: 11.36Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 9.27Yakima Valley Cubing 2018: 11.13St. John's Spring Open 2018: 9.81SnoCo Summer 2018: 9.76CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.40CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 11.31Vancouver Select 2018: 9.26SnoCo Fall 2018: 10.66Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 10.47Welcome to 2019: 8.43UBC Open 2019: 11.04Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 8.93Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 10.51CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2019: 8.57Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 10.04Canadian Championship 2019: 9.19Puget Sound Summer 2019: 8.99Gaston Toe Twiddling 2019: 9.01Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 8.77Puget Sound Fall 2019: 7.33Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 8.06Oregon State Favorites 2019: 7.58SnoCo Fall 2019: 6.30Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 8.46UBC Open 2020: 8.96Washington Championship 2020: 7.60Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020: 8.77BC Cubing Comeback B 2021: 7.15Richmond Open B 2021: 7.37BC Cubing Springback B 2022: 8.08Washington Championship 2023: 6.36BC Spring Solving B 2023: 6.96Vancouver Pride 2023: 6.71Canadian Championship 2023: 6.75Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 7.47SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 6.88Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 6.56Burnaby Basics 2024: 7.45Vancouver Newcomers Afternoon 2024: 7.71Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 7.33Richmond Rumble 2024: 6.95Bellingham Spring 2024: 7.45CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 6.72BC Championship 2024: 6.74Tacoma Winter 2025: 7.09Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2025: 7.28Aldergrove Clock Fest 2025: 7.58Penticton Lakeside 2025: 6.02Surrey Monday Open 2025: 6.94Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 7.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.82Victoria Winter 2026: 7.53Southern Oregon Game Expo 2026: 7.82North Sound Spring 2026: 7.27Richmond Spring 2026: 7.90Oregon State Spring 2026: 7.26Seattle Summer 2026: 7.44Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2026: 6.79BC Championship 2026: 7.446.0224.8810 Jun 20177 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.

  • Max Siauw — met in 382 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
  • Sameer Aggarwal — met in 371 rounds, finished ahead 39 times
  • Kenny Zhong — met in 351 rounds, finished ahead 177 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.