People · Finland
Erkka Niiva
3×3 · top 21.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022NIIV01
Erkka Niiva has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.21, set at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025, puts him in the top 21.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 249th in Finland. Across 10 competitions since September 2022, he has put 407 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.95 in September 2022 to 14.21, a 35% improvement. Erkka has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Finland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 14.21 | 16.80 | top 21.8% | 249 / 886 | |
| Clock | 9.40 | 11.06 | top 21.9% | 68 / 198 | |
| 2×2 | 3.65 | 5.10 | top 22.1% | 240 / 683 | |
| Skewb | 5.69 | 8.93 | top 23.4% | 149 / 411 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.50 | 8.33 | top 23.9% | 213 / 558 | |
| 4×4 | 56.21 | 1:04.24 | top 32.3% | 139 / 397 | |
| Square-1 | 27.29 | 41.90 | top 44.2% | 88 / 160 | |
| Megaminx | 2:04.99 | 2:16.64 | top 48.7% | 100 / 193 | |
| 5×5 | 2:00.00 | 2:11.77 | top 49.4% | 120 / 236 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 33.32 | 41.32 | top 54.1% | 179 / 318 | |
| 6×6 | 4:04.14 | 4:09.91 | top 67.0% | 77 / 119 | |
| 7×7 | 6:12.57 | 6:38.28 | top 70.7% | 68 / 102 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 13 Sep 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.21 at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025.
- 13 Sep 2025Five personal bests in one day at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025.
- 26 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at VERK VII 2025.
- 3 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2024.
- 10 Nov 2023Six personal bests in one day at Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023.
- 22 Jul 2023Five personal bests in one day at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2023.
Competitions
- Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2026 · 1 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- VERK VII 2025 · 26 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Big & Blind & Clock Vantaa 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Kirkkonummi Time Trial 2023 · 3 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Level Up Uusimaa 2022 · 25 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Finnish Championship 2022 · 24 Sep 2022
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.
- Luukas Lempinen — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Niko Ronkainen — met in 87 rounds, never finished ahead
- Atilla Kopecky — met in 69 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 40,277 people have one; it is 2.21 away.
- A sub-8 Clock single — 4,962 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
Targets move as he improves.