Ron van Bruchem
Ron van Bruchem (born 20 April 1967) is a well known Dutch speedcuber living in Almere. He helped create the current resurge of Rubik's Cube enthusiasm by founding the international speedcubing community and organizing international compe*ions. He is also a founder, delegate and former chairman of the World Cube *ociation, an organization aiming at the spread of speedcubing as a regulated sport. He is also the host of the website speedcubing.com.
In 1999 the first modern age speedcubers found each other on internet via Rubik's Games, a computer game with an electronic version of Rubik's Cube. Chris Hardwick from Raleigh, NC founded a Yahoo Group Speedsolvingrubikscube and the Unofficial World Records, a place where cubers could post their personal records. Ron van Bruchem started speedcubing.com together with his friend Ton Dennenbroek, an avid puzzle collector. Because the first cubers were living all over the world they wanted to organize a compe*ion where they could all meet. After failing in 2001, under guidance of Dan Gosbee they finally succeeded to organize World Championship 2003 in Toronto. This first modern age Rubik's Cube compe*ion was a huge success, but there were many issues because of insufficient regulation. After WC 2003 Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao started organizing compe*ions in The Netherlands/Germany and at Caltech in USA. In 2004 they started the World Cube *ociation which nowadays organizes compe*ions in over 90 countries.
World records
Ron van Bruchem has held official world records for solving the Rubik's Cube (9.55 seconds) set at the Dutch Nationals 2007 (lost 2008), the 5x5x5 cube in 2006 (1:47.22 min) set at Belgian Open 2006 (lost 2006), and 2x2x2 cube (2.65 seconds) set at UK Open 2007 (lost 2008).He is currently the fastest Rubik's Cube solver over 30 years old, which *le he won at the World Championship Rubik's Cube 2013 in Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Personal life
Ron van Bruchem was born in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He was partially raised in a facility for children of Salvation Army. After his studies he has been working for Rabobank for over 25 years now.Ron has a daughter Julia (December 1997).
External links
- Ron van Bruchem's listing on http://www.worldcube*ociation.org
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