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Niels Nijstad

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 37.3% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023NIJS01

Niels Nijstad has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 37 moves, set at FMC Canada 2025, puts him in the top 37.3% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 71st in the Netherlands. Across 38 competitions since May 2023, he has put 703 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.52 in May 2023 to 19.81, a 44% improvement. Niels has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 37.3% of 12,294 all-time
37 moves
signature single · FMC Canada 2025
703
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves56.00
top 37.3%71 / 167
Pyraminx8.3113.39
top 38.9%622 / 1,283
3×319.8124.66
top 39.4%1,065 / 2,294
Clock13.7116.91
top 42.6%208 / 466
4×41:07.221:18.19
top 44.2%424 / 1,000
Skewb8.5713.36
top 45.5%475 / 957
Megaminx2:10.242:15.69
top 51.4%220 / 414
5×52:05.112:10.43
top 52.4%268 / 532
2×26.278.67
top 53.6%1,049 / 1,665
7×75:18.085:53.23
top 56.3%111 / 169
Square-133.8950.91
top 56.6%216 / 407
6×63:40.173:49.13
top 58.7%134 / 205
3×3 blindfolded4:32.925:44.18
top 75.0%97 / 132
3×3 one-handed57.601:10.73
top 82.5%591 / 726
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 4 cubes · 24:05—
early days — 1 solve42 / 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

Solved Central Alberta 2023: 35.52Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 29.35Calgary Summer Classic 2023: 22.78Odd Day in Sylvan 2023: 32.10Saskatchewan Open 2023: 29.16Foothills NxNs 2023: 31.11New to Sherwood Park 2024: 24.25Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 24.68NA Stadium Series - Edmonton 2024: 32.05Cubing Among the Drumheller Dinosaurs 2024: 28.39Solved Central Alberta 2024: 23.90Airdrie NxNs 2024: 25.18Lloydminster Border Battle 2024: 23.44Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 25.56Battle of Alberta 2025: 24.29New to Edmonton B 2025: 21.82Out in the Country Crossfield 2025: 26.21Southern Alberta Cubing 2025: 19.81Calgary Summer B 2025: 22.69Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2025: 24.54Solved Central Alberta 2025: 25.67Crossfield Fall 2025: 20.17Calgary Spring 2026: 24.74Winnipeg Spring 2026: 20.66Battle of Alberta 2026: 24.69Canadian Prairie Championship 2026: 24.54Calgary Fall 2026: 20.0319.8135.5227 May 202329 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 4.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.