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Sander Smets

3×3 · top 17.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2017 · 2017SMET01

Sander Smets has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.01, set at Belgium Summer Open 2017, puts him in the top 17.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 218th in Belgium. Across 3 competitions since February 2017, he has put 56 official solves on the record across six events. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.47 in February 2017 to 13.01, a 10% improvement. Sander has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.01
signature single · Belgium Summer Open 2017
56
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBelgium
3×313.0117.52
top 17.5%218 / 1,094
2×23.376.77
top 18.6%178 / 777
4×41:10.171:38.91
top 47.0%206 / 459
5×52:18.172:52.46
top 60.0%136 / 246
6×65:17.285:33.58
early days — 3 solves89 / 119
7×79:54.26
early days — 1 solve89 / 91

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

Belgian Winter 2017: 14.47Belgium Summer Open 2017: 13.01World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 13.7713.0114.4725 Feb 201713 Jul 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.