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Emil Alpsten

3×3 · top 0.13% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022ALPS01

Emil Alpsten has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.07, set at Svealandsmästerskapet 2025, puts him in the top 0.13% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Sweden. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since April 2022, he has put 3,044 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.40 in April 2022 to 5.07, a 75% improvement. Emil has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.13% of 284,439 all-time
5.07
signature single · Svealandsmästerskapet 2025
3,044
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
3×35.076.60
top 0.13%5 / 2,925
Pyraminx1.221.72
top 0.16%5 / 1,730
2×20.871.38
top 0.33%15 / 2,325
5×542.6552.25
top 0.38%3 / 562
4×423.5425.80
top 0.42%7 / 1,120
Skewb1.493.41
top 0.44%11 / 1,173
3×3 one-handed11.1413.90
top 2.0%25 / 868
Clock4.385.87
top 3.1%18 / 546
Megaminx45.9354.98
top 3.4%26 / 564
6×61:44.451:52.23
top 5.3%17 / 249
3×3 blindfolded41.071:04.92
top 7.1%10 / 159
Square-110.7615.57
top 7.5%37 / 427
7×73:00.863:06.63
top 10.8%25 / 206
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves31.67
top 12.2%22 / 168

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

Popular 'n Blind Flen 2022: 20.40Warm Up Stockholm 2022: 14.86Swedish Championship 2022: 12.49Kalmar Cubing 2023: 10.78Cuboss Open 2023: 8.12SveKub Super League VII: Herrljunga 2023: 7.31SveKub Super League Final: Uppsala 2023: 8.69Curtan Cubing Contest 2024: 6.171:a Lördagskuben i Västerås 2024: 7.61Uppsala Winter Cubing 2024: 6.84Cuboss Open 2024: 7.82Stockholmsligan 432: Fel Färg i Ankeborg - 2024: 8.98Swedish Championship 2024: 7.50Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 6.42Svealandsmästerskapet 2024: 7.09Uppsala Open 2024: 5.58Stockholmsligan 393: Ankornas Kamp - 2024: 6.66Stekt Falukorv Open 2024: 6.94Curtan Cubing Contest 2025: 6.04Stockholmsligan Nne - Kifaru 2025: 7.74First Solves Gothenburg 2025: 7.72Stockholmsligan Saba - Nyani 2025: 7.80Swedish Championship 2025: 6.19Stockholmsligan Nane - Twiga 2025: 7.02Kublördag Uppsala I - 2025: 5.82Svealandsmästerskapet 2025: 5.07Cuboss Open 2025: 6.57Stockholmsligan Tatu - Mamba 2025: 5.89Stockholmsligan Sita - Nyoka 2025: 6.82Stockholmsligan 1: Skids - 2026: 7.04Curtan Cubing Contest 2026: 5.85Stockholmsligan 2: Djungelvrål - 2026: 6.89Ekerö Open 2026: 6.75Riverlake 2026: 6.08Solvermalm 2026: 5.55Nordic & Swedish Championship 2026: 5.95Cooldown Uppsala 2026: 6.06Åland Open 2026: 5.83Stockholmsligan 7: Peber - 2026: 7.06Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.01Stockholmsligan Final: Pop - 2026: 6.42Stockholmsligan 1: Nappar - 2026: 7.15Svealandsmästerskapet 2026: 5.98Ösmo Summer Cubing 2026: 6.12Stockholmsligan 2: Kex - 2026: 7.475.0720.4029 Apr 202227 Aug 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 0.07 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.