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Samuël van Elk

Pyraminx · top 21.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025ELKS01

Samuël van Elk has been competing for 9 months. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 6.13, set at Breda Open 2026, puts him in the top 21.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 363rd in the Netherlands. Across 5 competitions since December 2025, he has put 105 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.17 in December 2025 to 14.92, a 26% improvement. He has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 21.0% of 129,321 all-time
6.13
signature single · Breda Open 2026
105
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
Pyraminx6.138.24
top 21.0%363 / 1,283
Skewb5.738.37
top 23.7%260 / 957
2×23.815.00
top 24.1%551 / 1,665
3×314.9219.78
top 24.2%692 / 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

Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025: 20.17Leersum Open 2026: 18.06Amsterdam Open 2026: 14.92Classic Cubing Capelle 2026: 17.54Breda Open 2026: 16.9314.9220.1720 Dec 202518 Apr 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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.