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Jan Erik Soosaar

2×2 · top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016SOOS01

Jan Erik Soosaar has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.69, set at Võru Värk 2019, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in Estonia. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since September 2016, he has put 1,650 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.46 in September 2016 to 9.28, a 60% improvement. Jan has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.69
signature single · Võru Värk 2019
1,650
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingEstonia
2×21.693.67
top 3.0%15 / 244
Megaminx45.1651.69
top 3.2%3 / 45
3×39.2811.54
top 5.5%21 / 308
Pyraminx3.546.40
top 5.6%11 / 186
Skewb3.365.01
top 6.9%13 / 126
3×3 one-handed16.5222.44
top 11.4%12 / 115
4×445.4552.83
top 18.9%17 / 124
Square-118.0531.01
top 23.5%7 / 46
5×51:38.231:42.84
top 34.1%15 / 59
Clock13.8517.09
top 43.2%25 / 48
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
top 48.3%16 / 35
6×63:31.903:47.44
top 55.4%11 / 26
7×75:16.675:19.01
top 55.9%6 / 19

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

Estonian Open 2016: 23.46Tartu Open 2016: 21.73Sigulda Open 2017: 16.10Tallinn Open 2017: 16.91World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 18.23Estonian Open 2017: 13.97Tartu Open 2017: 15.84Pärnu Open 2018: 16.79Narva Open 2018: 13.96Tallinn Open 2018: 14.22Estonian Open 2018: 14.62Latvian Open 2018: 12.70Tartu Open 2018: 11.82Narva Winter 2019: 12.20Randvere Cube Day 2019: 11.16Denmark & Friends 2019: 13.01Võru Värk 2019: 11.80Tallinn Open 2019: 9.93Estonian Open 2019: 11.86Tartu Open 2019: 11.92Estonian Open 2020: 12.02Estonian Open 2021: 11.54Tartu Open 2021: 11.96Tallinn Open 2022: 11.00Jāņi Kārķos 2022: 11.62Estonian Open 2022: 11.95TEC Open 2022: 9.70Tartu Open 2022: 9.28Ehte Cube Days 2023: 11.78TKTK Workday Cubing II 2023: 12.17Estonian Open 2023: 11.78Tallinn Open 2024: 10.70Viljandi Open 2024: 12.21Tartu Open 2024: 10.589.2823.4610 Sep 201614 Dec 2024

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-40 Megaminx single — 557 people have one; it is 5.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.