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Mats Valk

2×2 · top 0.024% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2007 · 2007VALK01

Mats Valk has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.56, set at Kaohsiung Open 2016, puts him in the top 0.024% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in the Netherlands. Until March 2016, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 158 competitions since November 2007, he has put 9,489 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 53.43 in November 2007 to 4.74, a 91% improvement. Mats has entered 158 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.024% of 186,767 all-time
0.56
signature single · Kaohsiung Open 2016
9,489
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×20.561.92
top 0.024%1 / 1,665
4×420.3024.10
top 0.063%2 / 1,000
3×34.746.20
top 0.073%5 / 2,294
5×542.3349.41
top 0.35%5 / 532
3×3 one-handed9.2312.02
top 0.61%6 / 726
6×61:22.911:36.53
top 0.91%4 / 205
Megaminx41.7149.23
top 2.0%9 / 414
7×72:19.632:24.44
top 2.3%4 / 169
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves27.33
top 4.0%6 / 167
Pyraminx3.605.73
top 5.9%94 / 1,283
Square-110.9014.24
top 7.8%25 / 407
Skewb4.848.01
top 17.0%175 / 957
3×3 blindfolded1:32.562:07.74
top 24.0%22 / 132
Clock10.5813.66
top 28.0%137 / 466
3×3 Multi-Blind1 of 2 cubes · 7:43—
early days — 1 solve40 / 44

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

Dutch Championship 2007: 53.43Belgian Open 2008: 21.65Benelux Open 2008: 19.88German Open 2008: 15.44Finnish Open 2008: 12.00Dutch Masters 2008: 13.02Brussels Summer Open 2008: 12.43European Championship 2008: 13.25Dutch Open 2008: 11.96Dutch Nationals 2008: 12.56The Hague Open 2008: 11.58Aachen Open 2009: 11.75Benelux Open 2009: 11.66Belgian Open 2009: 10.90French Open 2009: 11.69German Open 2009: 11.06Brussels Summer Open 2009: 10.96World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 10.52Dutch Open 2009: 9.91Essen Open 2009: 10.40Dutch Nationals 2009: 10.03The Hague Open 2009: 10.43Aachen Open 2010: 8.13Benelux Open 2010: 10.05German Open 2010: 9.56Belgian Open 2010: 9.05Cologne Open 2010: 9.50Düsseldorf Open 2010: 9.21German Nationals 2010: 9.25European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 8.91Dutch Open 2010: 9.16Dutch Nationals 2010: 8.40Aachen Open 2011: 8.52NEMO Amsterdam Open 2011: 8.09German Open 2011: 8.02Amstelveen Open 2011: 8.02World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 7.52Dutch Open 2011: 6.41Spols Open 2011: 8.03German Nationals 2011: 7.11Dutch Nationals 2011: 7.88Zonhoven Open 2012: 6.44Twente Open 2012: 7.38German Open 2012: 7.27NEMO Amsterdam Open 2012: 7.25N8W8 Summer 2012: 6.93Eindhoven Open 2012: 7.05Amstelveen Open 2012: 7.47European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 6.55Dutch Open 2012: 6.27Zonhoven Open 2013: 5.551 AVG competition 2013: 7.34Eindhoven Spring 2013: 6.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 7.00Amstelveen Open 2013: 7.38Dutch Open 2013: 6.61Twente Open 2013: 7.15MPEI Open 2013: 7.382 AVG competition 2014: 7.30De Wilg Open 2014: 7.08US Nationals 2014: 7.21Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 7.43Dutch Nationals 2014: 6.51Dutch Open 2014: 6.23Johannesburg 2014: 6.15Cape Town 2014: 6.55Zonhoven Open 2015: 6.81CBNBC 2015: 6.43TCG & Friends Arequipa 2015: 6.82TCG & Friends 2015: 6.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 7.05N8W8 Summer 2015: 6.25China Championship 2015: 6.33DYC Rubik Open 2015: 6.02Cubelonia 2016: 6.62Tulip Open 2016: 6.54King's Open 2016: 6.73West Friesche Open 2016: 6.41European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 5.13US Nationals 2016: 6.69Singapore 333 Cube Competition 2016: 5.68Kaohsiung Open 2016: 6.46Asian Championship 2016: 7.04Jawa Timur Open 2016: 4.74POPS Open 2016: 6.01Sydney Championship 2016: 6.53Dutch Winter 2017: 5.90Belgian Winter 2017: 6.58Zuidplas Open 2017: 5.85German Open 2017: 6.43Hoogland Open 2017: 6.34Belgium Summer Open 2017: 6.17Breda Open 2017: 5.76German Big Cube Open 2017: 5.05London Open 2017: 6.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 6.06China Championship 2017: 6.06Zwolle Open 2017: 5.75SCMU 2017: 6.28Dutch Nationals 2017: 6.65Dutch Open 2017: 6.57Belgian Open 2017: 6.41Marathon Open 2017: 5.82Annuntia Open 2018: 5.19Assen Open 2018: 5.40Cube Weekend St. Michielsgestel 2018: 6.43Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 6.39Elsass Open 2018: 5.75Breda Open 2018: 5.54Semey Open 2018: 5.73Veenendaal Open 2018: 6.37WCA European Championship 2018: 6.31CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.04Dutch Nationals 2018: 6.48Paris Open 2018: 5.65Dutch Open 2018: 5.96Zonhoven Autumn Open 2018: 6.19Welcome to Academy 2018: 5.57Meppel Open 2018: 6.12Luxembourg Open 2018: 6.20Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 5.53Rijswijk Open 2018: 6.74Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 6.24Haarlem Cubing 2019: 5.85Annuntia Open 2019: 5.41Denmark & Friends 2019: 6.53Cube Weekend Sint Michielsgestel 2019: 5.99London Open 2019: 5.31Elsass Open 2019: 6.23Breda Open 2019: 6.88Belarus Nationals 2019: 5.51Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 6.36Warm Up Sydney 2019: 6.54WCA World Championship 2019: 5.82CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 5.98Hoogland Open 2019: 6.12Dutch Nationals 2019: 5.27Dutch Open 2019: 5.79Seraing Open 2019: 6.22Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 5.70Minx C-Open-hagen 2020: 5.96Dutch Masters 2020: 6.69Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020: 6.31Veenendaal Open 2020: 6.15Hoorn Open 2022: 6.04Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 5.25Westfries Open 2022: 5.43Dutch Nationals 2022: 5.68Kampen Open 2023: 5.88Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.44Dutch Autumn 2023: 6.09Dutch Nationals 2023: 5.79Lente Spring 2024: 6.25Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.37Dutch Nationals 2024: 5.87Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 6.284.7453.4324 Nov 20075 Sep 2025

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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.