People · Belgium
Vince Deruyter
3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024DERU02
Vince Deruyter has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.16, set at Ranst Autumn 2025, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in Belgium. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since March 2024, he has put 519 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.66 in March 2024 to 8.16, a 56% improvement. Vince has entered 16 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 | Belgium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.16 | 11.53 | top 3.1% | 39 / 1,094 | |
| 2×2 | 1.97 | 3.37 | top 4.5% | 41 / 777 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.51 | 7.25 | top 10.3% | 77 / 589 | |
| Skewb | 4.24 | 6.69 | top 12.6% | 53 / 394 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.77 | 25.63 | top 17.2% | 50 / 314 | |
| 4×4 | 50.32 | 57.67 | top 25.1% | 114 / 459 | |
| Square-1 | 38.17 | 42.77 | top 63.0% | 88 / 150 | |
| 5×5 | 2:24.20 | 2:41.39 | top 63.1% | 146 / 246 |
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
- 23 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Breda Open 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Arnhem Open 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.82 at Brugge Beginners Open 2025.
- 24 Nov 2024First sub-15 3×3: 13.02 at Beveren Sunday Open 2024.
- 24 Nov 2024Five personal bests in one day at Beveren Sunday Open 2024.
- 10 May 2024Five personal bests in one day at Wommelgem Open 2024.
Competitions
- Wezemaal Open 2026 · 3 May 2026
- No Rush Hasselt 2026 · 14 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Belgian Nationals 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Ranst Autumn 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beveren Saturday Open 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Visé Sunday Open 2025 · 14 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Breda Open 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Brugge Beginners Open 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Alphen Cubing 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Christmas Cubing Breda 2024 · 22 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Beveren Sunday Open 2024 · 24 Nov 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Belgian Nationals 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Warm Up Wommelgem 2024 · 13 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Wommelgem Open 2024 · 10 May 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Brugge Beginners Open 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 4 personal bests set
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.
- Joran Pauwels — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Tias Claeys — met in 80 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
- Bowen Xie (解博文) — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
Targets move as he improves.