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Frans Sjöstedt

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024SJOS01

Frans Sjöstedt has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.63, set at Vännäs & Friends 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 132nd in Sweden. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since April 2024, he has put 290 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.69 in April 2024 to 8.63, a 19% improvement. Frans has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.63
signature single · Vännäs & Friends 2024
290
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
3×38.639.91
top 4.0%132 / 2,925
2×21.992.73
top 4.7%180 / 2,325
Pyraminx3.525.26
top 5.5%140 / 1,730
3×3 one-handed22.8229.38
top 28.3%237 / 868
4×41:03.751:10.09
top 40.4%361 / 1,120

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

Cuboss Open 2024: 10.69Vännäs & Friends 2024: 8.63Svealandsmästerskapet 2024: 9.57Norrlandsmästerskapet 2024: 9.00Norrland Tour: Umekuben 2025: 8.81Norrlandsmästerskapet 2025: 8.64Dvärsätt Open 2026: 8.778.6310.696 Apr 202410 Jan 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.