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Ruan van der Spoel

3×3 · top 35.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015SPOE02

Ruan van der Spoel has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.36, set at Johannesburg Open 2015, puts him in the top 35.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 465th in South Africa. Across 2 competitions since November 2015, he has put 29 official solves on the record across three events. Ruan has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 35.2% of 284,439 all-time
18.36
signature single · Johannesburg Open 2015
29
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×318.3624.83
top 35.2%465 / 2,164
2×211.5714.95
top 83.2%1,094 / 1,510
4×42:03.832:27.50
top 83.3%350 / 491

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

Johannesburg Open 2015: 18.36Johannesburg 2016: 23.8018.3623.8029 Nov 201527 Nov 2016

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.36 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 1.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.