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Lars Ulveseth

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018ULVE01

Lars Ulveseth has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.04, set at Sandnes Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in Norway. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since September 2018, he has put 1,931 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.79 in September 2018 to 7.04, a 58% improvement. Lars has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.04
signature single · Sandnes Open 2025
1,931
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×37.048.05
top 1.4%26 / 1,609
2×21.863.57
top 3.9%68 / 1,202
4×433.5536.91
top 5.4%25 / 590
5×51:08.271:18.00
top 10.4%23 / 318
Skewb4.557.87
top 14.8%89 / 531
Pyraminx5.7110.01
top 17.9%193 / 865
3×3 one-handed22.8031.22
top 28.2%135 / 513
Megaminx1:35.621:47.81
top 31.8%61 / 262
6×63:01.423:09.00
top 41.7%42 / 136
Clock16.5119.11
top 53.7%118 / 241
7×76:18.517:30.59
top 71.9%69 / 115

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

Fredrikstad Open 2018: 16.79Sandnes Open 2018: 17.37Voss Open 2019: 12.74Sandnes Open 2019: 10.47Bergen Open 2020: 10.18Sandnes Open 2020: 9.51Sandnes Open 2021: 8.57Norwegian Championship 2021: 9.05Romerike Easter Open 2022: 8.03Norwegian Championship 2022: 8.28Bergen Open 2022: 8.49Sandnes Open 2022: 8.87Sandnes Winter 2023: 8.39Bergen Spring 2023: 8.46Norwegian Championship 2023: 8.50Sandnes Open 2023: 8.29Bergen Fall 2023: 8.12Sandnes Winter 2024: 8.48Bergen Spring 2024: 8.01Viste Lørdagskubing April 2024: 8.35Bergen Open 2024: 8.58Norwegian Championship 2024: 8.48Bergen Fall 2024: 8.43Sandnes Winter 2025: 8.40Bergen Spring 2025: 7.60Oslo Open 2025: 8.30Sandnes Summer Fun 2025: 8.28Norwegian Championship 2025: 8.13Sandnes Open 2025: 7.04Bergen Fall 2025: 7.89Stavanger Open 2025: 8.02Sandnes Winter 2026: 7.75Bergen Spring 2026: 7.20Teknostallen 2026: 7.53Norwegian Championship 2026: 7.337.0417.371 Sep 201814 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.