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Birk Joench-Clausen

3×3 · top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2021 · 2021JOEN01

Birk Joench-Clausen has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.20, set at Danish Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Denmark. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2021, he has put 1,014 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.81 in October 2021 to 5.20, a 41% improvement. Birk has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.16% of 284,439 all-time
5.20
signature single · Danish Championship 2022
1,014
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingDenmark
3×35.206.77
top 0.16%4 / 1,198
4×429.7535.72
top 2.7%16 / 468
2×21.943.21
top 4.4%58 / 906
Megaminx58.371:08.27
top 9.1%24 / 232
Skewb4.115.98
top 11.6%65 / 467
5×51:11.311:20.48
top 12.5%28 / 269
3×3 one-handed18.2519.80
top 15.8%69 / 380
Pyraminx6.548.57
top 24.2%207 / 702
Clock14.7317.03
top 46.9%91 / 187
7×77:06.50
top 81.3%82 / 116

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

Danish Championship 2021: 8.81Borupgaard Autumn 2021: 8.80Vestkyst Cubing 2021: 8.12DSF Generalforsamlingen 2022: 8.56Speedcubing i Lille Friheden 2022: 7.18Odsherred Forårscubing 2022: 7.40Østervang Open 2022: 6.10Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 6.70Danish Championship 2022: 5.20Aarhus Open 2022: 6.20Ikast Winter Cubing 2023: 6.12DSF Generalforsamlingen 2023: 5.37Holmegårdsskolen Februar 2023: 5.99Aarhus Spring 2023: 6.12Odsherred Sommercubing 2023: 5.78Blandede Bolsjer i Lejre 2023: 6.73Odense Classic Cubing 2023: 5.71Danish Championship 2023: 5.83Danish Championship 2024: 6.08Clockerup i Otterup 2025: 6.295.208.818 Oct 202116 Aug 2025

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 0.20 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 4.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.