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Max IJspeert

Pyraminx · top 0.25% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023IJSP01

Max IJspeert has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.33, set at Leersum Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in the Netherlands. Until October 2015, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since May 2023, he has put 704 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.84 in May 2023 to 9.08, a 70% improvement. Max has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.25% of 130,891 all-time
1.33
signature single · Leersum Open 2026
704
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
Pyraminx1.332.42
top 0.25%3 / 1,296
3×39.0811.70
top 5.1%144 / 2,318
2×22.403.66
top 8.0%173 / 1,680
Skewb3.986.84
top 10.8%104 / 968
Clock10.3812.42
top 26.8%136 / 479
4×454.381:03.00
top 30.1%293 / 1,009
3×3 one-handed26.7234.42
top 38.8%264 / 737
Megaminx2:17.26—
early days — 3 solves240 / 417
Square-140.181:01.67
top 65.6%247 / 407
5×52:38.71—
top 70.0%381 / 542

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

Capelle Cubing 2023: 29.84Visé Sunday Open 2023: 20.99Dutch Nationals 2023: 18.48Dutch Winter South 2024: 14.51Arnhem Open B 2024: 11.64Capelle Cubing 2024: 14.14Heerenveen Open 2024: 10.78Beveren Sunday Open 2024: 10.97Christmas Cubing Breda 2024: 11.36Alphen Cubing 2025: 10.30Lente in Lent 2025: 11.23Arnhem Open 2025: 10.70Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 11.35Freezing Fryslân 2025: 10.00Leersum Open 2026: 10.58Classic Cubing Capelle 2026: 10.72West-Fries Open 2026: 9.08Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 10.57Visé Sunday Open 2026: 9.859.0829.8414 May 202313 Sep 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.

  • Pablito Poye — met in 135 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
  • Florine Zuur — met in 119 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
  • Casper Hegt — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 40 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.