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Johannes Laire

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since January 2007 · 2007LAIR01

Johannes Laire has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Finnish Open 2009, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14th in Finland. Across 7 competitions since January 2007, he has put 188 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.90 in January 2007 to 11.96, a 20% improvement. Johannes has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time
29 moves
signature single · Finnish Open 2009
188
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves
top 12.2%14 / 95
3×3 one-handed17.0622.98
top 12.7%57 / 314
3×311.9614.42
top 13.8%172 / 875
2×23.275.58
top 17.4%207 / 671
3×3 blindfolded2:12.71
early days — 2 solves21 / 61
4×41:05.781:10.87
top 42.6%179 / 388
Megaminx1:59.282:22.07
top 45.3%94 / 188

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

Helsinki Open 2007: 14.90Finnish Open 2007: 12.84Helsinki Open 2008: 11.96Finnish Open 2008: 13.27Finnish Open 2009: 13.83Helsinki Open 2010: 14.56Swedish Open 2010: 13.0511.9614.9013 Jan 200711 Sep 2010

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-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 2.06 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.