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Elmo Tiitola

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011TIIT01

Elmo Tiitola has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.24, set at Kirkkonummi Open 2014, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in Finland. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since April 2011, he has put 576 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.41 in April 2011 to 9.24, a 57% improvement. Elmo has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.24
signature single · Kirkkonummi Open 2014
576
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×39.2411.21
top 5.4%75 / 875
4×435.9241.82
top 7.6%47 / 388
2×22.473.69
top 8.6%118 / 671
3×3 one-handed17.9721.01
top 15.0%64 / 314
5×51:16.701:25.37
top 16.6%46 / 232
6×62:36.412:51.01
top 28.9%37 / 116
7×74:33.954:43.21
top 42.4%39 / 99

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

Kotka Open 2011: 21.41Kirkkonummi Open 2011: 20.52Finnish Open 2011: 13.27Helsinki Open 2012: 12.50Finnish Open 2012: 11.94Vantaa Open 2013: 11.18Heureka Open 2013: 11.02Finnish Open 2013: 10.27Heureka Open 2014: 10.71Kirkkonummi Open 2014: 9.24Vantaa Open 2014: 10.45Finnish Open 2015: 9.789.2421.412 Apr 201113 Jun 2015

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.