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Loek Gijsbers

3×3 · top 15.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018GIJS01

Loek Gijsbers has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.51, set at Dutch Autumn 2022, puts him in the top 15.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 452nd in the Netherlands. Across 9 competitions since June 2018, he has put 144 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 47.51 in August 2018 to 12.51, a 74% improvement. Loek has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.7% of 284,439 all-time
12.51
signature single · Dutch Autumn 2022
144
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×312.5115.76
top 15.7%452 / 2,294
Pyraminx5.889.90
top 19.1%332 / 1,283
2×23.704.98
top 22.7%519 / 1,665
Skewb8.2112.82
top 42.9%457 / 957
3×3 one-handed47.38
early days — 2 solves524 / 726
4×42:30.96
early days — 2 solves927 / 1,000

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

Zwolle Open 2018: 47.51Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 25.88Hoogland Open 2019: 25.29Dutch Open 2019: 17.59Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020: 18.48Dutch Autumn 2022: 12.51Ermelo Cubing A 2023: 16.3612.5147.5117 Aug 201822 Apr 2023

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.