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Willem A. Schmidt

Skewb · top 1.6% of 73,281 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023SCHM04

Willem A. Schmidt has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.09, set at Concord Summer 2025, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 236th in the United States. Until December 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since June 2023, he has put 1,100 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.99 in June 2023 to 9.38, a 59% improvement. Willem has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 1.6% of 73,281 all-time
2.09
signature single · Concord Summer 2025
1,100
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb2.093.04
top 1.6%236 / 18,907
3×39.3813.55
top 5.8%3,217 / 59,724
2×22.273.95
top 6.8%2,687 / 40,951
Clock7.368.41
top 12.4%951 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed18.2626.42
top 15.8%2,032 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.517.67
top 16.5%4,382 / 28,708
4×448.9653.48
top 23.4%3,563 / 19,072
Megaminx1:30.211:34.74
top 28.3%1,962 / 7,841
5×51:46.641:53.26
top 40.3%3,252 / 9,401
Square-129.1537.03
top 47.8%3,112 / 6,743
6×64:36.79—
top 76.4%3,037 / 4,196
7×76:50.77—
early days — 3 solves2,453 / 3,184

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

Concord Summer 2023: 22.99Hobcaw Cubing 2023: 19.58North Carolina Championship 2023: 17.48Algorithms on Abercorn 2023: 15.64Rocky Top 2023: 16.47Volunteer State Cubing 2024: 14.82Middle Georgia Speedsolving 2024: 11.90Country Roads Huntington 2024: 14.63Concord Summer 2024: 13.93CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 15.68Bull City Summer NC 2024: 14.58Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 12.95NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 12.01Charlotte Winter 2025: 10.13Queen City NC 2025: 11.97Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 12.62Skewbing in School Kennesaw 2025: 12.97Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2025: 14.19CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 14.20Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.04Concord Summer 2025: 11.17Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 12.50NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 12.16Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 12.02Georgia Championship 2026: 12.16Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 12.98Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 9.38Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026: 11.52Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.959.3822.9925 Jun 20232 Jul 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.