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Marco Willems

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2009 · 2009WILL02

Marco Willems has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.65, set at Belgian Summer 2018, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 263rd in the Netherlands. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2009, he has put 861 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.19 in September 2009 to 10.65, a 52% improvement. Marco has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.65
signature single · Belgian Summer 2018
861
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×310.6512.39
top 9.4%263 / 2,294
Megaminx1:02.581:07.77
top 11.3%45 / 414
Pyraminx5.288.25
top 14.9%252 / 1,283
2×23.224.93
top 16.8%375 / 1,665
4×443.9046.52
top 16.9%160 / 1,000
5×51:21.561:36.59
top 20.3%106 / 532
Square-119.1528.58
top 26.0%90 / 407
3×3 one-handed26.4131.17
top 37.9%252 / 726
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves
top 48.3%92 / 167
Clock15.6817.19
top 50.6%239 / 466
Skewb9.9112.88
top 54.4%554 / 957
7×75:29.665:58.16
top 59.6%120 / 169
6×64:02.944:29.90
top 66.4%153 / 205
3×3 blindfolded4:13.44
top 71.1%92 / 132

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

Brussels Summer Open 2009: 22.19Dutch Open 2009: 23.03Benelux Open 2010: 16.40Dutch Open 2010: 14.36Belgian Open 2011: 14.27Czech Open 2011: 14.25Amstelveen Open 2011: 15.09Dutch Open 2011: 12.94Zonhoven Open 2012: 12.00Zune Open 2012: 12.94Aachen Summer Open 2012: 13.09European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 14.09Zonhoven Open 2015: 12.53Belgian Open 2017: 12.43Belgian Summer 2018: 10.6510.6523.0312 Sep 200911 Aug 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-1:00 Megaminx single — 3,483 people have one; it is 2.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.