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Matthias van Vliet

Pyraminx · top 2.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018VLIE01

Matthias van Vliet has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.62, set at Breda Open 2019, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48th in the Netherlands. Until January 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since January 2018, he has put 238 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.83 in January 2018 to 11.77, a 37% improvement. Matthias has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 2.5% of 129,321 all-time
2.62
signature single · Breda Open 2019
238
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
Pyraminx2.623.72
top 2.5%48 / 1,283
3×311.7714.22
top 13.1%367 / 2,294
2×22.924.93
top 13.3%294 / 1,665
Skewb6.188.54
top 27.2%299 / 957
4×454.481:01.30
top 30.1%288 / 1,000
3×3 one-handed29.8844.52
top 46.4%311 / 726
5×52:06.832:28.73
top 53.5%273 / 532

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

Happy New Year Cubing Dordrecht 2018: 18.83Breda Open 2018: 15.39Dutch Nationals 2018: 14.35Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 12.06Breda Open 2019: 12.26Dutch Nationals 2019: 11.7711.7718.835 Jan 201821 Sep 2019

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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.