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Aili Asikainen

Pyraminx · top 6.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2007 · 2007ASIK01

Aili Asikainen has been competing for 19 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.73, set at Finnish Open 2013, puts her in the top 6.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 62nd in Finland. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since August 2007, she has put 988 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 29.43 in August 2007 to 10.83, a 63% improvement. Aili has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 6.4% of 129,321 all-time
3.73
signature single · Finnish Open 2013
988
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
Pyraminx3.735.70
top 6.4%62 / 551
2×22.405.50
top 8.0%105 / 671
3×310.8312.54
top 10.0%129 / 875
4×453.801:04.22
top 29.3%127 / 388
3×3 one-handed25.1931.16
top 34.7%124 / 314
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
top 37.3%40 / 95
Square-125.2135.18
top 39.6%77 / 155
5×52:19.752:31.91
top 60.9%144 / 232
Megaminx2:34.722:51.19
top 63.5%128 / 188
3×3 blindfolded6:41.41
early days — 1 solve53 / 61

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Finnish Open 2007: 29.43Helsinki Open 2008: 21.88Finnish Open 2008: 16.75European Championship 2008: 18.46Tampere Open 2008: 17.52Helsinki Open 2009: 15.25Finnish Open 2009: 14.94World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 13.78Swedish Cube Day competition 2009: 15.50Helsinki Open 2010: 15.63Czech Open 2010: 13.22Finnish Open 2010: 13.80European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 15.44Swedish Cubedays 2010: 11.88Helsinki Open 2011: 12.36Czech Open 2011: 11.83Swedish Championship 2011: 13.91UK Open 2011: 12.93Karstula Open 2012: 13.09European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 11.46Finnish Open 2012: 11.69Vantaa Open 2013: 11.88Guildford Open 2013: 12.31Heureka Open 2013: 11.81Finnish Open 2013: 10.83Swedish Cube Days 2013: 12.00Vantaa Open 2014: 11.1410.8329.4318 Aug 200713 Dec 2014

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as she improves.