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Joel Ulin

3×3 one-handed · top 0.36% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011ULIN01

Joel Ulin has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.63, set at Flen Christmas Sleepover 2018, puts him in the top 0.36% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Sweden. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since September 2011, he has put 2,460 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.09 in September 2011 to 7.04, a 56% improvement. Joel has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.36% of 73,695 all-time
8.63
signature single · Flen Christmas Sleepover 2018
2,460
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
3×3 one-handed8.6312.41
top 0.36%4 / 868
3×37.048.59
top 1.4%57 / 2,925
2×21.563.25
top 2.4%100 / 2,325
4×433.1636.91
top 5.1%60 / 1,120
Skewb3.245.73
top 6.3%107 / 1,173
Megaminx59.901:07.99
top 10.0%54 / 564
5×51:07.991:12.51
top 10.3%54 / 562
Pyraminx4.556.77
top 10.5%241 / 1,730
3×3 blindfolded58.60—
top 12.6%25 / 159
6×62:25.282:42.54
top 23.2%58 / 249
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves35.00
top 26.7%54 / 168
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 53:36—
top 28.3%31 / 89
7×73:59.254:06.03
top 30.4%59 / 206
4×4 blindfolded6:29.78—
early days — 2 solves16 / 52
Square-149.88—
top 76.0%310 / 427

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

Swedish Championship 2011: 16.09Estonian Open 2011: 13.81Swedish Cubedays 2011: 13.69Norwegian Championship 2012: 10.84Stockholm Open 2013: 11.68Swedish Cube Days 2013: 11.22Linkub 2014: 10.77Hallonbergen 2014: 10.46Stockholm Open 2014: 10.40Skanstull Cube 2014: 10.31Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 9.80Swedish Championship 2014: 9.93Huddinge Cube Day 2014: 9.47Uppsala Open 2015: 9.55Linkub 2015: 10.47Harrow Spring 2015: 8.77Luleå Open 2015: 10.03Swedish Championship 2015: 9.27Nyköping Cube Day 2016: 9.17Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2016: 8.19European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 8.56ÅF Swedish Cube Open 2016: 8.18Kubvasan 2016: 8.25Flen New Year's Blind 2017: 8.29SSL 1 Jönköping 2017: 8.22SSL 2 Stockholm 2017: 8.52Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2017: 8.81Swedish Championship 2017: 8.12World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.49Anders Larsson Memorial 2017: 7.04SSL Final Borås 2017: 8.61Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2018: 7.80Flen Christmas Sleepover 2018: 8.54SSL 1 Åkers Styckebruk 2019: 8.88Valborg Cubing 2019: 8.38Swedish Decathlon Challenge 2019: 7.95SSL Final Stockholm 2019: 7.67Södertälje New Year 2020: 7.76Popular 'n Blind Flen 2020: 8.02Flen - Lilla Manschetten 2021: 8.14Stockholmsligan 4: Ice Hockey - 2023: 8.27Ekerö Open 2023: 7.26Stockholmsligan 6: Curling - 2023: 8.49Stockholmsligan Final: Spökboll - 2023: 8.94Strängnäs Open 2024: 8.41All Events in Stockholm 2024: 9.12Stockholmsligan 413: Kalle i Kubik - 2024: 9.70Stockholmsligan Tatu - Nyati 2025: 7.977.0416.0917 Sep 201119 Feb 2025

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.