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Pieter Geerling

2×2 · top 6.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023GEER03

Pieter Geerling has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.23, set at Arnhem Open B 2024, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 139th in the Netherlands. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since September 2023, he has put 156 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.01 in September 2023 to 12.66, a 45% improvement. Pieter has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.23
signature single · Arnhem Open B 2024
156
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×22.235.27
top 6.5%139 / 1,665
Pyraminx5.318.49
top 15.1%256 / 1,283
3×312.6617.36
top 16.2%476 / 2,294
4×459.371:12.32
top 35.8%343 / 1,000
Skewb10.9218.68
top 60.4%609 / 957
3×3 one-handed50.68
top 77.3%551 / 726
5×52:58.03
top 77.5%412 / 532

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

Amsterdam Open 2023: 23.01Dutch Nationals 2023: 22.44Dutch Winter North 2024: 21.02Arnhem Open B 2024: 24.73Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025: 12.66Arnhem Open 2025: 16.0812.6624.7310 Sep 202328 Jun 2025

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.