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Olivier van Luijk

Pyraminx · top 0.37% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016LUIJ01

Olivier van Luijk has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.46, set at Dutch Masters 2022, puts him in the top 0.37% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in the Netherlands. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since October 2016, he has put 1,207 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 6.31 in October 2016 to 1.46, a 77% improvement. Olivier has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.37% of 129,321 all-time
1.46
signature single · Dutch Masters 2022
1,207
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
Pyraminx1.462.80
top 0.37%6 / 1,283
3×39.6213.69
top 6.4%176 / 2,294
Skewb3.674.94
top 8.8%88 / 957
Clock6.567.68
top 9.3%38 / 466
2×22.574.32
top 9.6%204 / 1,665
4×444.2854.50
top 17.4%164 / 1,000
5×51:37.011:41.43
top 33.1%163 / 532
Square-123.8033.68
top 36.4%138 / 407
3×3 one-handed26.6833.56
top 38.5%258 / 726
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves92 / 167
6×63:37.99—
top 57.9%133 / 205

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

Dutch Open 2016: 6.31The Hague Open 2017: 5.51Breda Open 2017: 4.25Zwolle Open 2017: 3.48Dutch Nationals 2017: 3.48Dutch Open 2017: 4.51Marathon Open 2017: 3.39Breda Open 2018: 3.12Veenendaal Open 2018: 2.65Zwolle Open 2018: 2.15Dutch Nationals 2018: 2.96Dutch Open 2018: 2.55Zonhoven Autumn Open 2018: 2.80Meppel Open 2018: 2.57Rijswijk Open 2018: 3.34Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 3.08Annuntia Open 2019: 3.30Dutch Masters 2019: 2.65Breda Open 2019: 2.41Hoogland Open 2019: 2.32Dutch Nationals 2019: 1.72Dutch Open 2019: 4.24Rijswijk Open 2019: 3.57Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 2.62Dutch Masters 2020: 2.46Annuntia Open 2020: 3.30Veenendaal Open 2020: 2.88Seraing Open 2021: 3.05Dutch Spring 2022: 2.12Dutch Masters 2022: 1.46Luxembourg Open 2022: 2.17Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 2.17Dutch Autumn 2022: 2.58Campeonato de España 2022: 2.18Dutch Nationals 2022: 2.71Alphen Cubing 2023: 2.501.466.3129 Oct 20165 Feb 2023

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.