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Tobias Lipschart

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018LIPS01

Tobias Lipschart has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.89, set at Dutch Winter South 2024, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 128th in the Netherlands. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since November 2018, he has put 376 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.00 in November 2018 to 1.99, a 50% improvement. Tobias has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.89
signature single · Dutch Winter South 2024
376
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×38.8910.79
top 4.6%128 / 2,294
2×21.994.07
top 4.7%104 / 1,665
4×439.3147.51
top 11.3%102 / 1,000
Skewb4.869.90
top 17.1%179 / 957
Pyraminx6.338.26
top 22.5%389 / 1,283
3×3 one-handed30.5733.70
top 47.9%329 / 726
5×51:59.852:14.35
top 49.2%251 / 532
Megaminx2:26.922:42.66
top 59.7%259 / 414
Square-11:00.82
top 84.2%337 / 407

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

Meppel Open 2018: 4.00Dutch Masters 2019: 3.10Breda Open 2019: 3.85Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 3.70Hoogland Open 2019: 1.99Dutch Nationals 2019: 2.89Dutch Open 2019: 3.19Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 3.27Dutch Open 2023: 2.12Dutch Winter South 2024: 4.021.994.0210 Nov 201813 Jan 2024

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.