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Niklas Heinänen

2×2 · top 6.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023HEIN04

Niklas Heinänen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.19, set at Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 79th in Finland. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since January 2023, he has put 137 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Niklas has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.19
signature single · Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023
137
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
2×22.194.23
top 6.1%79 / 671
Pyraminx5.056.53
top 13.5%127 / 551
3×314.0016.65
top 21.0%238 / 875
Skewb6.1410.39
top 26.8%166 / 405
Megaminx1:45.921:53.74
top 38.1%82 / 188
4×41:02.521:06.25
top 39.2%167 / 388
5×52:17.61
top 59.7%141 / 232

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

Sormet Jäässä Järvenpäässä 2023: 2.25Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023: 2.19Finnish Championship 2023: 3.512.193.5128 Jan 202320 Oct 2023

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.