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Niilo Eskelinen

Square-1 · top 0.23% of 25,272 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022ESKE01

Niilo Eskelinen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.86, set at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025, puts him in the top 0.23% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Finland. Until September 2020, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since June 2022, he has put 5,240 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Skewb best has come down from 11.53 in June 2022 to 1.67, an 86% improvement. Niilo has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.23% of 25,272 all-time
4.86
signature single · Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025
5,240
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
Square-14.866.85
top 0.23%1 / 155
Skewb1.673.94
top 0.68%8 / 405
Pyraminx1.774.22
top 0.78%13 / 551
2×21.222.13
top 1.1%16 / 671
3×37.619.04
top 2.1%30 / 875
Clock4.025.14
top 2.4%8 / 194
3×3 one-handed11.9716.01
top 2.9%23 / 314
4×430.7834.61
top 3.3%18 / 388
5×51:02.921:07.34
top 7.1%21 / 232
Megaminx58.371:05.09
top 9.1%27 / 188
6×61:58.742:14.95
top 10.6%14 / 116
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves35.67
top 12.2%14 / 95
7×73:26.203:34.20
top 18.5%21 / 99
3×3 blindfolded2:01.332:37.12
top 33.9%18 / 61
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 11:56—
early days — 1 solve21 / 24

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

Pulmapelipäivät 2022: 11.53Kuutiostoren Kuutiokekkerit 2022: 5.75Level Up Uusimaa 2022: 5.77Sormet Jäässä Järvenpäässä 2023: 4.89Kirkkonummi Time Trial 2023: 3.67Autotalo All Events 2023: 5.79Tampere 2023: 5.65Autotalo All Events 2 2023: 4.24Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2023: 3.24Tallinn Open 2023: 4.22Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023: 2.55Finnish Championship 2023: 2.76Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023: 3.48Autotalo Anime Adventure I 2024: 4.24Kuopion Kuutiokemut 2024: 3.24Deutsche Cube Days Helsinki 2024: 2.48Lahen Cubefest 2024: 3.47Autotalo Anime Adventure VI 2024: 4.89Pulmapelipäivät 2024: 4.58Autotalo Anime Adventure VIII 2024: 3.98Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 5.17Autotalo Anime Adventure IX 2024: 3.56The End of Autotalo Anime Adventure 2024: 3.11Estonian Championship 2024: 3.53Finnish Championship 2024: 3.42Helsinki 2024: 3.69Oulu 2025: 4.55Kaisaniemi Cubing 2025: 2.86Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2025: 3.43VERK V 2025: 4.17Kampin Kuutiopäivät 2025: 2.54VERK VI 2025: 3.79Pulmapelipäivät 2025: 3.36VERK VIII 2025: 2.56Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025: 4.44Puzzling Puzzles Vantaa 2025: 1.67Finnish Championship 2025: 3.36VERK IX 2025: 2.71Caveman Cubing Lohja 2025: 3.43VERK XII 2026: 3.42VERK XIII 2026: 4.02Nordic & Swedish Championship 2026: 3.23Pulmapelipäivät 2026: 3.56VERK XVI 2026: 3.11Åland Open 2026: 3.15Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 3.86Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2026: 4.211.6711.5310 Jun 20221 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Skewb. 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-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.67 away.

Targets move as he improves.