People · Netherlands
Melle van Ruijven
3×3 · top 3.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023RUIJ01
Melle van Ruijven has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.54, set at Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 110th in the Netherlands. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since May 2023, he has put 646 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.17 in May 2023 to 8.54, a 55% improvement. Melle has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.54 | 10.19 | top 3.9% | 110 / 2,318 | |
| 2×2 | 2.13 | 3.15 | top 5.7% | 126 / 1,680 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.74 | 5.88 | top 6.4% | 104 / 1,296 | |
| Skewb | 3.54 | 6.07 | top 8.0% | 80 / 968 | |
| Clock | 6.44 | 7.19 | top 8.8% | 37 / 479 | |
| 4×4 | 38.69 | 46.34 | top 10.6% | 91 / 1,009 | |
| Megaminx | 1:05.90 | 1:10.59 | top 13.3% | 57 / 417 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.44 | 19.75 | top 16.3% | 97 / 737 | |
| Square-1 | 16.08 | 21.93 | top 18.9% | 62 / 407 | |
| 5×5 | 1:20.52 | 1:24.07 | top 19.7% | 99 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Mar 2026Three personal bests in one day at Classic Cubing Capelle 2026.
- 20 Dec 2025Five personal bests in one day at Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025Five personal bests in one day at Arnhem Open 2025.
- 8 Feb 2025Seven personal bests in one day at Leersum Squared 2025.
- 15 Nov 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.46 at Dutch Nationals 2024.
- 15 Nov 2024Nine personal bests in one day at Dutch Nationals 2024.
Competitions
- Warm Up Lent 2026 · 10 Jul 2026
- Classic Cubing Capelle 2026 · 8 Mar 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Leersum Open 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025 · 20 Dec 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Lente in Lent 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Leersum Squared 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 7 personal bests set
- Christmas Cubing Breda 2024 · 22 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Nationals 2024 · 15 Nov 2024 — 9 personal bests set
- Capelle Cubing 2024 · 9 Jun 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open B 2024 · 24 Mar 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Dutch Winter South 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 7 personal bests set
- Visé Sunday Open 2023 · 10 Sep 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Capelle Cubing 2023 · 14 May 2023
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.
- Florine Zuur — met in 117 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Pablito Poye — met in 116 rounds, finished ahead 34 times
- Casper Hegt — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 60 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
Targets move as he improves.