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Willem Klose

3×3 · top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017KLOS01

Willem Klose has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.71, set at Rubik's German Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 52nd in Germany. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 92 competitions since November 2017, he has put 3,763 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.27 in November 2017 to 6.71, a 77% improvement. Willem has entered 92 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time
6.71
signature single · Rubik's German Nationals 2025
3,763
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×36.7110.67
top 1.0%52 / 4,109
Pyraminx2.123.33
top 1.4%26 / 1,987
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves29.00
top 1.5%10 / 338
2×21.513.26
top 2.2%104 / 2,875
3×3 Multi-Blind26 of 27 cubes · 56:15—
top 2.5%2 / 142
3×3 blindfolded25.1829.94
top 2.9%11 / 343
Skewb2.786.02
top 4.0%39 / 1,169
4×4 blindfolded2:24.354:55.96
top 4.7%3 / 85
5×5 blindfolded6:10.367:19.70
top 7.7%3 / 47
4×436.9542.59
top 8.6%165 / 1,934
Clock7.528.83
top 13.0%73 / 634
3×3 one-handed17.5824.68
top 14.0%182 / 1,314
5×51:15.361:22.10
top 15.6%156 / 1,158
Square-118.1525.36
top 23.7%113 / 533
Megaminx1:32.181:40.09
top 29.6%211 / 787
6×63:08.483:32.74
top 44.9%225 / 586
7×75:09.165:50.86
top 53.6%219 / 510

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

Munich Open 2017: 29.27Munich Open 2018: 16.32Swiss Science Open 2018: 16.22Swisscubing Cup Final 2018: 17.50Austrian Open 2019: 15.98Zentralschweiz 2019: 14.67Wiler Würfelfest 2019: 14.72Zurich Open 2019: 13.37Swisscubing Cup III 2019: 10.83German Nationals 2019: 14.08LYN Cubing Days 2019: 13.00Swiss Science Open 2019: 13.02Liechtenstein Open 2019: 12.74Munich Open 2019: 10.61Xlingen Open 2019: 12.96Baden-Württemberg Open 2019: 12.67Swisscubing Cup Final 2019: 12.30Franconia Winter 2020: 11.22Swisscubing Cup II 2020: 12.57Swisscubing Cup IV 2020: 10.67Offline Schwyz Saturday 2021: 10.71Little Village Open 2022: 12.32Swisscubing Cup I 2022: 11.21Swisscubing Cup II 2022: 12.27Lake Constance Cubing 2022: 11.36Swisscubing Cup III 2022: 12.29Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 10.79Swisscubing Cup IV 2022: 11.83Bilbao Open 2022: 11.76Swiss Nationals 2022: 10.29Swisscubing Cup V 2022: 10.35Swisscubing Cup Finale 2022: 10.58Frozen Lake Constance 2023: 11.08OFFA Speedcubing Meisterschaft 2023: 10.70Swisscubing Cup III 2023: 12.43Swedish Championship 2023: 10.54SveKub Super League V: Uppsala 2023: 11.35Oslo Open 2023: 9.64Cubing Returns Munich B 2023: 10.06German Nationals 2023: 10.83Swisscubing Cup V 2023: 12.23Swisscubing Cup Final 2023: 13.41Bavarian Open 2023: 9.24Swiss Science Open 2023: 9.13Franconia Winter 2023: 9.84Swisscubing Cup II 2024: 8.87Franconia Winter 2024: 9.14French Championship 2024: 12.24Longstone City Blind Open 2024: 11.41Teublitz Open 2024: 10.43Warm Up Portugalete 2024: 10.07Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 10.96İstanbul May 2025: 10.02Champagne Open 2025: 9.23Munich Open 2025: 10.01Rubik's German Nationals 2025: 6.71Franconia Christmas 2025: 9.10Cubing in the Rain 2026: 10.21Langenstein City Blind Open 2026: 10.52Munich Open 2026: 9.57Nordic & Swedish Championship 2026: 9.89Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 11.086.7129.274 Nov 201716 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.

  • Tobias Peter — met in 537 rounds, finished ahead 81 times
  • Alwin Rölz — met in 455 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Hannah Minas — met in 371 rounds, finished ahead 159 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.