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Mikael Hälinen

Pyraminx · top 0.072% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022HALI01

Mikael Hälinen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.09, set at Finnish Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.072% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Finland. Until June 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since April 2022, he has put 1,509 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 9.54 in April 2022 to 1.09, an 89% improvement. Mikael has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.072% of 129,321 all-time
1.09
signature single · Finnish Championship 2024
1,509
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
Pyraminx1.092.11
top 0.072%1 / 551
3×37.028.06
top 1.3%21 / 875
2×21.443.08
top 1.9%25 / 671
3×3 one-handed11.1215.73
top 2.0%18 / 314
4×433.2138.40
top 5.1%27 / 388
Clock6.557.46
top 9.3%29 / 194
Skewb4.376.22
top 13.5%91 / 405
Megaminx1:08.851:13.01
top 15.0%46 / 188
5×51:15.051:27.60
top 15.4%44 / 232
Square-131.7540.15
top 52.8%97 / 155
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves—
early days — 2 solves62 / 95
6×63:54.99—
early days — 2 solves75 / 116
7×79:35.72—
early days — 1 solve93 / 99

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

Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2022: 9.54Estonian Open 2022: 8.47Finnish Championship 2022: 6.18Level Up Uusimaa 2022: 3.24Kubsala Winter 2023: 2.63Sormet Jäässä Järvenpäässä 2023: 2.82Kirkkonummi Time Trial 2023: 2.21Autotalo All Events 2023: 3.01Autotalo Minx - Clove Shake 2023: 1.82Tampere 2023: 3.23Pulmapelipäivät 2023: 1.81Autotalo Common 2023: 2.40Viljandi Värk 2023: 2.42Autotalo 2023: 1.66Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023: 2.14Finnish Championship 2023: 2.03Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023: 1.49Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024: 1.69Deutsche Cube Days Helsinki 2024: 1.80Lahen Cubefest 2024: 1.47Autotalo Anime Adventure VI 2024: 1.88Pulmapelipäivät 2024: 1.95Autotalo Anime Adventure VII 2024: 2.07Autotalo Anime Adventure IX 2024: 1.49The End of Autotalo Anime Adventure 2024: 1.33Finnish Championship 2024: 1.09Helsinki 2024: 1.82Kaisaniemi Cubing 2025: 1.70VERK VIII 2025: 1.75Finnish Championship 2025: 1.981.099.5415 Apr 202217 Oct 2025

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.