[17][18] This performance earned him his third and final norm required for the title of Grandmaster, making him the youngest German ever to achieve this feat.

In the third leg, he tied for first with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in Pool B with a result of 3.5/6, eventually losing 1/4 in rapid and blitz tiebreakers.

In June 2022 Keymer won the Prague Chess Festival Challengers 2022 with a result of 6.5/9 after winning the tiebreaker against Hans Niemann, thus qualifying for the tournament's Masters section next year.

He finished the World Rapid Chess Championship 2022 runner-up after beating Caruana and Nepomniachtchi, scoring 9.5/13 points.

Vincent Keymer won the first leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour (which took place at the Weissenhaus resort in Germany), after defeating Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals and Fabiano Caruana in the final match.

His father, Christof Keymer, is a concert pianist and a professor of music at Leibniz University Hannover; his mother, Heike, plays the cello in an orchestra.