People · Netherlands
Vera Derks
2×2 · top 10.7% of 189,179 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022DERK01
Vera Derks has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.67, set at Beginner Utrecht 2025, puts her in the top 10.7% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 227th in the Netherlands. Across 19 competitions since April 2022, she has put 574 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 33.74 in April 2022 to 16.20, a 52% improvement. Vera has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.67 | 4.63 | top 10.7% | 227 / 1,680 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.49 | 9.11 | top 16.4% | 281 / 1,296 | |
| Skewb | 6.18 | 11.56 | top 27.3% | 301 / 968 | |
| 3×3 | 16.20 | 19.35 | top 28.6% | 819 / 2,318 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.82 | 38.74 | top 36.5% | 246 / 737 | |
| 4×4 | 1:10.92 | 1:21.43 | top 47.8% | 472 / 1,009 | |
| Clock | 15.21 | 17.36 | top 48.8% | 238 / 479 | |
| Megaminx | 2:15.91 | — | top 54.4% | 237 / 417 | |
| 5×5 | 2:11.68 | 2:19.46 | top 56.5% | 297 / 542 | |
| 6×6 | 3:52.56 | 4:07.70 | early days — 3 solves | 150 / 208 | |
| 7×7 | 6:28.60 | — | early days — 2 solves | 142 / 171 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Jul 2026Three personal bests in one day at Warm Up Lent 2026.
- 16 Dec 2023Four personal bests in one day at Take Your Time Ermelo 2023.
- 25 Nov 2023Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Nationals 2023.
- 3 Jun 2023First sub-20 3×3: 18.60 at Dutch Open 2023.
- 3 Jun 2023Five personal bests in one day at Dutch Open 2023.
- 26 Nov 2022Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Nationals 2022.
Competitions
- Cubing Days Neuburg 2026 · 3 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026 · 16 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Lent 2026 · 10 Jul 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Pakje Open in Lent 2025 · 6 Dec 2025
- Beginner Utrecht 2025 · 3 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Arnhem Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Start in Veenendaal 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Leersum Squared 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Dutch Open 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Lente Spring 2024 · 7 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open B 2024 · 24 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Autumn 2023 · 23 Sep 2023
- Dutch Open 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2022 · 26 Nov 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Westfries Open 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Dutch Autumn 2022 · 25 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Dutch Spring 2022 · 17 Apr 2022
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.
- Ivo Stoutjesdijk — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead once
- Nanno Venhorst — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Ron van Bruchem — met in 103 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
Targets move as she improves.