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Luan van der Walt

3×3 · top 0.67% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023WALT02

Luan van der Walt has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.28, set at Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025, puts him in the top 0.67% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in South Africa. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2023, he has put 885 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.10 in January 2023 to 6.28, a 73% improvement. Luan has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.67% of 284,439 all-time
6.28
signature single · Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025
885
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×36.2810.22
top 0.67%7 / 2,164
2×21.563.87
top 2.4%19 / 1,510
Pyraminx3.407.39
top 5.1%29 / 946
Skewb3.617.76
top 8.4%31 / 438
Megaminx1:14.811:32.30
top 18.5%29 / 266
4×447.5152.36
top 21.5%65 / 491
3×3 one-handed21.2823.93
top 24.0%68 / 467
Square-119.9527.85
top 27.9%29 / 118
5×51:35.361:47.17
top 31.8%50 / 221
6×64:48.915:15.74
top 79.4%67 / 84

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

CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 23.10Crazy Cubing Centurion 2023: 16.85CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 16.64CubingZA National Championship 2023: 13.71Cubestuff Challenge Q1 2024: 13.18Cubestuff Challenge Q2 2024: 13.75Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2024: 10.84Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 9.22CuBeaulieu Craze Comeback 2025: 10.22CubingZA Nationals 2025: 9.99Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q2 2025: 6.28Menlo Cubing Open 2025: 8.94Cubestuff Q4 Zwartkop 2025: 9.53Cubestuff Centurion Q1 2026: 9.14Cubestuff Centurion Q2 2026: 8.67Cubestuff Challenge Centurion Q3 2026: 9.086.2823.1028 Jan 20231 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.