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Rijk de Groot

2×2 · top 18.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024GROO04

Rijk de Groot has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.34, set at Start in Veenendaal 2025, puts him in the top 18.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 412th in the Netherlands. Across 9 competitions since September 2024, he has put 217 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.49 in September 2024 to 18.09, a 41% improvement. Rijk has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 18.3% of 186,767 all-time
3.34
signature single · Start in Veenendaal 2025
217
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×23.346.89
top 18.3%412 / 1,665
Skewb6.0618.42
top 26.2%286 / 957
3×318.0921.28
top 34.4%945 / 2,294
Pyraminx8.4316.03
top 39.9%631 / 1,283
4×41:13.361:28.04
top 50.1%489 / 1,000
Clock16.4319.08
top 53.4%251 / 466
3×3 one-handed41.7150.99
top 67.7%467 / 726
5×52:50.703:21.18
top 74.9%399 / 532
Square-152.60
early days — 2 solves301 / 407
Megaminx3:25.62
early days — 3 solves379 / 414

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

Heerenveen Open 2024: 30.49Alphen Cubing 2025: 23.87Leersum Squared 2025: 21.58Start in Veenendaal 2025: 19.09Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025: 18.36Breda Open 2025: 20.05Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 18.09Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025: 23.2718.0930.4915 Sep 202420 Dec 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.