Mats Valk

Mats Valk
Born (1996-05-04) 4 May 1996
The Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Years active 2008-present

Mats Valk (born 4 May 1996) is a Dutch Rubik's Cube speedsolver.

Biography

Mats Valk holds the world record on the 3×3×3 cube: single speed solve with a time of 4.74 seconds broken during the second round at the Jawa Timur Open 2016 in Indonesia on November 6, 2016.[1] He is currently on a semester's exchange at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.[2] He is also the former world record holder on the 4x4 cube single speed solve and average of 5 solves. Valk also currently holds multiple Dutch and European records for World Cube Association-hosted events such as 2x2 cube, 4x4 cube, 5x5 cube, 3x3 cube one-handed, Square-1, 6x6 cube, 7x7 cube, and Skewb.[3] Mats Valk solves the 3x3 with the green or blue face on top. He is also the creator of VLS (Valk Last Slot), a set of algorithms that solves the orientation of the last layer (OLL) while inserting the last corner-edge pair of the first two layers (F2L).[4]

Valk got a second place at both the 2013[5] and 2015[6] Rubik's cube world championship.

Mats is also a businessman: he collaborated with the Chinese brand QiYi MoFangGe to design and create his own cube, according to his own specifications: the Valk 3. He set his 2016 3x3x3 world record using a magnetized version of this cube put together by TheCubicle.us, known as the Cubicle Valk M.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1825&cat=1&rnd=2
  2. ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ntu-student-sets-rubiks-cube-record
  3. ↑ "Mats Valk's profile at Speedsolving". Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. ↑ https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?44642-OLS-(VLS-HLS)-Algorithms-by-Mats-Valk-and-Rowe-Hessler
  5. ↑ https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/WC2013
  6. ↑ https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/WC2015
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLksISrKtO8

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