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Lauri Palmolahti

3×3 · top 40.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2012 · 2012PALM02

Lauri Palmolahti has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.12, set at Cube N' Meme 2016, puts him in the top 40.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 424th in Finland. Across 8 competitions since December 2012, he has put 63 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.94 in December 2012 to 20.12, a 35% improvement. Lauri has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 40.3% of 284,439 all-time
20.12
signature single · Cube N' Meme 2016
63
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×320.1225.49
top 40.3%424 / 875
2×212.4515.67
top 85.6%620 / 671
3×3 Fewest Moves69 moves
early days — 1 solve96 / 95

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

Finnish Open 2012: 30.94Vantaa Open 2013: 31.18Finnish Open 2013: 24.30Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 26.14Finnish Open 2015: 25.16Finnish Championship 2015: 23.83Cube N' Meme 2016: 20.1220.1231.188 Dec 201217 Sep 2016

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.