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Veerle Melis

3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2020 · 2020MELI02

Veerle Melis has been competing for 6 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.96, set at Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025, puts her in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 131st in the Netherlands. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since February 2020, she has put 1,983 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.66 in February 2020 to 8.96, a 49% improvement. Veerle has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.96
signature single · Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025
1,983
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×38.9611.78
top 4.8%131 / 2,294
Pyraminx3.806.09
top 6.7%110 / 1,283
2×22.413.48
top 8.0%173 / 1,665
Skewb4.126.64
top 11.7%113 / 957
4×443.0848.58
top 15.9%150 / 1,000
Clock8.9511.51
top 19.7%88 / 466
3×3 one-handed23.2829.47
top 29.5%191 / 726
Megaminx1:35.711:47.25
top 31.8%137 / 414
5×51:36.141:46.18
top 32.4%156 / 532
Square-122.5036.37
top 33.5%121 / 407
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves47.00
top 37.3%71 / 167
6×63:12.583:52.53
top 47.0%107 / 205
7×75:20.206:05.15
top 56.9%113 / 169
3×3 blindfolded4:42.135:32.63
early days — 3 solves101 / 132

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

Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020: 17.66Alphen Cubing 2023: 15.55Ermelo Cubing B 2023: 13.11Capelle Cubing 2023: 11.54Dutch Open 2023: 12.61Amsterdam Open 2023: 12.16Dutch Autumn 2023: 12.04Dutch Nationals 2023: 12.57Take Your Time Ermelo 2023: 13.72Leersum Algs 2024: 12.06Dutch Winter South 2024: 10.95Arnhem Open B 2024: 11.91Bigger in Breda 2024: 12.64Capelle Cubing 2024: 12.74Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 13.36Leersum Algs 24 Hours in 2024: 12.21Heerenveen Open 2024: 11.70Zottegem Saturday Open 2024: 10.95Dutch Open 2024: 12.57Dutch Nationals 2024: 11.21Christmas Cubing Breda 2024: 11.28Alphen Cubing 2025: 11.56Hayange Open 2025: 12.10Start in Veenendaal 2025: 12.83Lente in Lent 2025: 11.91Stevenage April 2025: 11.77Quick 'n Slick Meppel 2025: 8.96Arnhem Open 2025: 10.29Eat Sleep Cube Repeat Leersum 2025: 11.14Small Sides Alphen 2025: 13.21Beginner Utrecht 2025: 10.89Little LeideNxN 2025: 11.60Breda Open 2025: 10.35Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025: 10.63Take Your Time Ermelo 2025: 12.47Belgian Nationals 2025: 9.62Pakje Open in Lent 2025: 11.58Cubing in Oud IJsselmuiden 2025: 11.20Freezing Fryslân 2025: 11.02Leersum Open 2026: 11.36Amsterdam Open 2026: 10.70Breda Open 2026: 11.09Meppel Mayhem 2026: 11.19Warm Up Lent 2026: 11.20Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 12.57Capelle Chaos A 2026: 11.448.9617.6629 Feb 202022 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as she improves.