People · Netherlands
Mick Boekema
Clock · top 0.056% of 32,048 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022BOEK01
Mick Boekema has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.00, set at Lente in Lent 2025, puts him in the top 0.056% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in the Netherlands. Until August 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since April 2022, he has put 2,515 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.72 in April 2022 to 5.29, a 76% improvement. Mick has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 2.00 | 2.91 | top 0.056% | 1 / 466 | |
| 3×3 | 5.29 | 7.81 | top 0.19% | 8 / 2,294 | |
| Pyraminx | 1.55 | 3.46 | top 0.48% | 10 / 1,283 | |
| Skewb | 1.77 | 3.20 | top 0.86% | 10 / 957 | |
| 2×2 | 1.16 | 1.97 | top 0.92% | 25 / 1,665 | |
| 4×4 | 27.36 | 32.35 | top 1.5% | 16 / 1,000 | |
| Megaminx | 42.74 | 50.02 | top 2.4% | 11 / 414 | |
| Square-1 | 7.71 | 12.14 | top 2.6% | 10 / 407 | |
| 5×5 | 54.69 | 1:01.87 | top 3.3% | 19 / 532 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.31 | 13.99 | top 3.4% | 27 / 726 | |
| 6×6 | 1:56.89 | 2:01.46 | top 9.8% | 21 / 205 | |
| 7×7 | 3:01.64 | 3:15.32 | top 11.0% | 19 / 169 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 32 moves | 37.00 | top 20.4% | 41 / 167 |
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
- 10 Jul 2026Four personal bests in one day at Warm Up Lent 2026.
- 13 Jun 2026Three personal bests in one day at Rotterdam Big 'n Brain 2026.
- 19 Jul 2025Four personal bests in one day at Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025.
- 23 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Kölner Kubing 2025.
- 12 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Lente in Lent 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025Four personal bests in one day at Start in Veenendaal 2025.
Competitions
- Capelle Chaos B 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026 · 16 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Warm Up Lent 2026 · 10 Jul 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Rotterdam Big 'n Brain 2026 · 13 Jun 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Meppel Mayhem 2026 · 30 May 2026
- West-Fries Open 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Breda Open 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Amsterdam Open 2026 · 22 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Leersum Open 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Freezing Fryslân 2025 · 21 Dec 2025
- Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025 · 20 Dec 2025
- Pakje Open in Lent 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Ranst Autumn 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Small Sides Alphen 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Kölner Kubing 2025 · 23 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Lente in Lent 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Start in Veenendaal 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Leersum Squared 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Alphen Cubing 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2024 · 15 Nov 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Heerenveen Open 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Leersum Algs 24 Hours in 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Capelle Cubing 2024 · 9 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kölner Kubing 2024 · 24 May 2024 — 7 personal bests set
- Schiller Theater FMC Utrecht 2024 · 11 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Lente Spring 2024 · 7 Apr 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open A 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Leersum Algs 2024 · 5 Jan 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Nationals 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 7 personal bests set
- Belgian Nationals 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Dutch Autumn 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Amsterdam Open 2023 · 10 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Ermelo Cubing B 2023 · 23 Apr 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Kampen Open 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Alphen Cubing 2023 · 5 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Nationals 2022 · 26 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Autumn 2022 · 25 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Masters 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Spring 2022 · 17 Apr 2022
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.
- Ivo Stoutjesdijk — met in 459 rounds, finished ahead 63 times
- Mattheo de Wit — met in 404 rounds, finished ahead 53 times
- Vincent Chan — met in 399 rounds, finished ahead 119 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
Targets move as he improves.