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Shemara Van Kuijck

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013KUIJ01

Shemara Van Kuijck has been competing for 13 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.88, set at Harvard Fall 2014, puts her in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 126th in the Netherlands. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since October 2013, she has put 250 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.31 in October 2013 to 8.88, a 33% improvement. Shemara has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.88
signature single · Harvard Fall 2014
250
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×38.8810.67
top 4.6%126 / 2,294
2×22.173.99
top 6.0%132 / 1,665
4×438.9642.81
top 10.9%96 / 1,000
Megaminx1:09.391:14.61
top 15.2%67 / 414
Skewb5.346.88
top 20.8%221 / 957
5×51:34.511:40.98
top 31.1%152 / 532
3×3 one-handed42.05
early days — 2 solves470 / 726

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

Harvard Fall 2013: 13.31Lexington Fall 2013: 12.58Lexington Spring 2014: 10.81US Nationals 2014: 11.16GCC Fall 2014: 9.90Harvard Fall 2014: 8.88Lexington Fall 2014: 9.038.8813.315 Oct 20138 Nov 2014

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as she improves.