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Arvid Ahlstrand

3×3 · top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022AHLS01

Arvid Ahlstrand has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.81, set at Sleep & Solve Landsbro 2026, puts him in the top 0.38% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Sweden. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since October 2022, he has put 3,751 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.61 in October 2022 to 5.81, a 54% improvement. Arvid has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.38% of 284,439 all-time
5.81
signature single · Sleep & Solve Landsbro 2026
3,751
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
3×35.817.64
top 0.38%20 / 2,925
Pyraminx1.562.94
top 0.5%17 / 1,730
3×3 one-handed9.0114.10
top 0.51%7 / 868
2×21.021.96
top 0.59%32 / 2,325
7×72:02.022:07.94
top 0.72%1 / 206
6×61:21.161:26.42
top 0.74%2 / 249
5×546.5950.94
top 0.95%7 / 562
Clock3.324.50
top 1.2%8 / 546
Skewb2.024.06
top 1.4%26 / 1,173
4×427.5331.66
top 1.6%23 / 1,120
Megaminx43.8452.05
top 2.7%20 / 564
Square-18.5711.92
top 3.8%23 / 427
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves32.33
top 12.2%22 / 168
3×3 blindfolded1:09.051:36.36
top 15.8%32 / 159
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 46:39—
top 32.1%36 / 89
4×4 blindfolded7:54.629:49.01
top 43.3%20 / 52
5×5 blindfolded20:09.00—
early days — 1 solve15 / 24

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

Herrljunga Open 2022: 12.61Kubsala Winter 2023: 12.67Swedish Championship 2023: 9.26Trondheim Cube Week 2023: 9.20SveKub Super League VIII: Jönköping 2023: 9.14Hallsberg Open 2023: 8.82Cuberås 2023: 9.46Björneborg Winter 2023: 9.57SveKub Super League Final: Uppsala 2023: 9.89Curtan Cubing Contest 2024: 8.37All Events in Stockholm 2024: 8.95Big Cubes in Stafsinge 2024: 7.55Kanonkuben 2024: 8.48Cuboss Open 2024: 7.59Swedish Championship 2024: 7.033:e Lördagskuben i Västerås 2024: 8.99West Coast 3: Trollhättan 2024: 9.0724 Hours in Åker 2024: 9.00Summer Cubing in Stafsinge 2024: 10.68Svealandsmästerskapet 2024: 8.88Götalandsmästerskapet 2024: 7.84Uppsala Open 2024: 8.37Porfyrkuben 2024: 7.60Kublördag Västerås VI - 2025: 7.72Rottne Winter Cubing 2025: 8.37Örebro Open 2025: 8.01Kublördag Västerås VII - 2025: 7.03Let's Twist Again Landsbro 2025: 5.97Kublördag Västerås VIII - 2025: 5.90Sörmland Open 2025: 7.51Swedish Championship 2025: 6.63Kublördag Uppsala I - 2025: 7.95Svealandsmästerskapet 2025: 7.06Big Cubes in Little Kode 2025: 7.15Örebro Vinterkubing - Main Events 2025: 7.30Uppsalaligan 1: Bean - 2026: 7.99Stockholmsligan 1: Skids - 2026: 7.39Curtan Cubing Contest 2026: 7.43Porfyrkuben 2026: 8.58Kublördag Jönköping X - 2026: 7.01Nordic & Swedish Championship 2026: 6.38Sleep & Solve Landsbro 2026: 5.81Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.765.8112.6714 Oct 202216 Jul 2026

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.