Ron van Bruchem

Ron van Bruchem (born 20 April 1967) is a Dutch speedcuber living in Hilversum. He helped create the current resurge of Rubik's Cube enthusiasm by helping found the World Cube Association, an organization aiming at the spread of speedcubing as a regulated sport Chris Hardwick from Raleigh, NC founded multiple Yahoo Groups, including "Speedsolvingrubikscube" and the "Unofficial World Records", the latter being a place where cubers could post their personal records. together with his friend Ton Dennenbroek, an avid puzzle collector. Cubers globally wanted to organize a competition where they could all meet. After failing in 2001, they finally succeeded to organize World Championship 2003 in Toronto. This first modern age Rubik's Cube competition was a success, but there were many issues because of insufficient regulation. After WC 2003, Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao started organizing competitions in The Netherlands/Germany and at Caltech in the USA.

Personal life

Ron van Bruchem was born in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He was partially raised in a facility for children of the Salvation Army. After his studies, he began working as an IT strategist at a large bank , which he still works at to this day.

Ron has a daughter named Julia, who was born December 1997.