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Joakim Smelvær

3×3 · top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022SMEL01

Joakim Smelvær has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.04, set at Bergen Spring 2026, puts him in the top 17.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 277th in Norway. Across 10 competitions since August 2022, he has put 198 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.26 in August 2022 to 13.04, a 39% improvement. Joakim has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.04
signature single · Bergen Spring 2026
198
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×313.0416.06
top 17.6%277 / 1,609
2×24.145.02
top 28.3%349 / 1,202
Skewb7.5910.22
top 38.2%240 / 531
4×41:28.401:54.12
top 62.4%354 / 590
3×3 one-handed53.421:22.80
top 79.7%368 / 513
5×53:24.56
top 85.1%244 / 318

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

Bergen Open 2022: 21.26Sandnes Open 2022: 19.12Bergen Spring 2023: 17.25Bergen Open 2023: 18.28Sandnes Open 2024: 14.57Stavanger Open 2024: 15.44Sandnes Winter 2025: 13.76Bergen Spring 2025: 13.10Sandnes Summer Fun 2025: 14.57Bergen Spring 2026: 13.0413.0421.2613 Aug 202221 Mar 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.