People · Netherlands
River van der Meulen
Skewb · top 26.8% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024MEUL01
River van der Meulen has been competing for 2 years. Their best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 6.14, set at Pakje Open in Lent 2025, puts them in the top 26.8% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 295th in the Netherlands. Across 18 competitions since March 2024, they have put 309 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 51.27 in March 2024 to 26.36, a 49% improvement. River has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 6.14 | 10.78 | top 26.8% | 295 / 957 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.43 | 12.72 | top 31.4% | 534 / 1,283 | |
| 2×2 | 4.44 | 12.25 | top 32.2% | 732 / 1,665 | |
| Clock | 12.56 | 14.72 | top 37.7% | 180 / 466 | |
| 3×3 | 26.36 | 35.72 | top 55.5% | 1,402 / 2,294 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Dec 2025First sub-30 3×3: 26.36 at Pakje Open in Lent 2025.
- 9 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Capelle Cubing 2024.
- 24 Mar 2024First competition: Arnhem Open B 2024. A 51.27 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Breda Open 2026 · 18 Apr 2026
- Leersum Open 2026 · 10 Jan 2026
- Pakje Open in Lent 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Small Sides Alphen 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lente in Lent 2025 · 12 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Leersum Squared 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Alphen Cubing 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Christmas Cubing Breda 2024 · 22 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2024 · 15 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Heerenveen Open 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Capelle Cubing 2024 · 9 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Bigger in Breda 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Arnhem Open B 2024 · 24 Mar 2024
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 their.
- Veerle Melis — met in 64 rounds, never finished ahead
- Anja Strydom — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead once
- Vincent Chan — met in 59 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
Targets move as they improves.