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Rens Venema

2×2 · top 8.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023VENE03

Rens Venema has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.41, set at Take Your Time Ermelo 2023, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 173rd in the Netherlands. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2023, he has put 693 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.36 in March 2023 to 12.55, a 41% improvement. Rens has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 8.0% of 186,767 all-time
2.41
signature single · Take Your Time Ermelo 2023
693
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×22.415.90
top 8.0%173 / 1,665
Pyraminx5.308.96
top 15.1%254 / 1,283
3×312.5515.03
top 15.8%454 / 2,294
Clock9.6112.01
top 23.1%112 / 466
Skewb6.139.76
top 26.7%294 / 957
3×3 one-handed23.1330.03
top 29.1%186 / 726
4×41:02.731:13.41
top 39.4%380 / 1,000
Megaminx2:35.08—
top 63.7%277 / 414
5×52:45.29—
top 72.8%385 / 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

Kampen Open 2023: 21.36Ermelo Cubing B 2023: 16.15Capelle Cubing 2023: 16.37Dutch Open 2023: 18.48Dutch Autumn 2023: 17.21Dutch Nationals 2023: 14.81Take Your Time Ermelo 2023: 14.41Arnhem Open B 2024: 14.98Lente Spring 2024: 12.99Capelle Cubing 2024: 14.50Leersum Algs 24 Hours in 2024: 14.53Heerenveen Open 2024: 12.87Dutch Open 2024: 12.55Dutch Nationals 2024: 13.32Christmas Cubing Breda 2024: 12.94Start in Veenendaal 2025: 15.11Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 14.74Take Your Time Ermelo 2025: 14.87Pakje Open in Lent 2025: 15.65Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025: 17.23Freezing Fryslân 2025: 14.68Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 15.2712.5521.3611 Mar 202316 Jul 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.