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Waldi van der Lingen

Skewb · top 48.5% of 73,281 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015LING03

Waldi van der Lingen has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 9.02, set at Johannesburg Open 2015, puts him in the top 48.5% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 182nd in South Africa. Across 2 competitions since November 2015, he has put 33 official solves on the record across four events. Waldi has entered two competitions.

Skewb
best event — top 48.5% of 73,281 all-time
9.02
signature single · Johannesburg Open 2015
33
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Skewb9.0212.37
top 48.5%182 / 438
3×323.3026.31
top 48.6%714 / 2,164
3×3 one-handed1:17.392:20.31
top 91.7%381 / 467
4×42:55.533:15.94
top 96.0%464 / 491

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

Johannesburg Open 2015: 23.30Johannesburg 2016: 27.5023.3027.5029 Nov 201527 Nov 2016

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 Skewb single — 30,246 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.