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Kåre Krig vs Arnaud van Galen

Two careers, 81 shared rounds, one running count. Everything below comes from the official results the two of them posted in the same rounds of the same competitions.

Kåre Krig (Sweden) and Arnaud van Galen (Netherlands) have met in 81 rounds across 11 competitions since 2006. Counting every round where both finished with a result, Kåre Krig leads Arnaud van Galen: 38 finishes in front to 37 and 6 ties.

On personal bests the split is just as plain: across 14 shared events, Arnaud van Galen holds the faster single in 12, Kåre Krig in 2.

Personal bests, side by side

faster single in bold
EventKåre Krig singleaverageArnaud van Galen singleaverage
3×313.4316.4812.5617.92
2×25.278.461.685.33
4×41:10.611:21.8554.3159.91
5×52:49.113:22.011:32.361:52.35
6×67:46.718:09.483:09.953:26.86
7×713:10.005:00.955:19.94
3×3 blindfolded2:20.083:03.223:48.97
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves45.6726 moves
3×3 one-handed35.6846.6623.6530.94
Clock19.6423.429.2813.51
Megaminx3:58.874:24.982:15.492:25.31
Pyraminx8.3612.934.849.39
Skewb12.4921.0511.0816.03
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 50:473 of 3 cubes · 24:47

Year by year

every meeting, 81 rounds in all
20062012busiest year: 31 meetings2006: 52007: 252008: 312009: 172012: 3

Recent meetings

newest first · averages where the round ranked on one, singles otherwise
YearCompetitionEventRoundKåre KrigArnaud van Galenahead
2012European Rubik's Cube Championship 20123×3First round21.0818.60Arnaud van Galen
2012European Rubik's Cube Championship 20123×3 blindfoldedFirst round2:21.053:38.96Kåre Krig
2012European Rubik's Cube Championship 20123×3 Multi-BlindFinal3 of 6 cubes · 50:00Kåre Krig
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20093×3First round19.9523.27Kåre Krig
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20093×3 blindfoldedFinal2:37.275:57.71Kåre Krig
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20093×3 Multi-BlindFinal1 of 2 cubes · 15:50Arnaud van Galen
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20094×4First round1:32.881:18.76Arnaud van Galen
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20095×5Final3:31.312:10.86Arnaud van Galen
2009Swedish Cube Day competition 20096×6Final8:09.484:22.73Arnaud van Galen
2009World Rubik's Cube Championship 20093×3First round20.5723.49Kåre Krig
2009World Rubik's Cube Championship 20093×3 blindfoldedFirst round4:36.473:18.11Arnaud van Galen
2009World Rubik's Cube Championship 20093×3 Fewest MovesFinal44 movesKåre Krig
2009World Rubik's Cube Championship 20093×3 Multi-BlindFinal3 of 3 cubes · 22:00Kåre Krig
2009World Rubik's Cube Championship 20093×3 one-handedQualification round1:00.5339.93Arnaud van Galen

Full careers: Kåre Krig · Arnaud van Galen. A meeting is a round of one event at one competition where both finished with a counted result. Who finished ahead follows official placing in the round: rounds played to an average are won on the average, best-of rounds on the single.