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Nikolai Steen Kjosnes

Pyraminx · top 13.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014KJOS01

Nikolai Steen Kjosnes has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.00, set at UiO Open 2016, puts him in the top 13.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 154th in Norway. Across 12 competitions since November 2014, he has put 497 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.28 in November 2014 to 12.08, a 65% improvement. Nikolai has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 13.2% of 129,321 all-time
5.00
signature single · UiO Open 2016
497
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
Pyraminx5.007.50
top 13.2%154 / 865
3×312.0815.16
top 14.2%227 / 1,609
2×23.504.43
top 20.2%268 / 1,202
3×3 one-handed24.4729.85
top 32.8%150 / 513
Skewb7.849.25
top 40.0%251 / 531
4×41:06.801:13.00
top 43.8%236 / 590
5×53:08.01
early days — 2 solves228 / 318
Megaminx4:06.14
early days — 2 solves225 / 262

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

Kjeller Open 2014: 34.28Arctic Open 2015: 19.74Norwegian Championship 2015: 18.59Bergen Open 2015: 14.28Oslo Fall 2015: 13.53Kjeller Open 2015: 12.22UiO Open 2016: 16.33Norwegian Championship 2016: 15.48VI QB'er 2017: 12.50Lier Open 2018: 14.23Bartebyen 2018: 12.81Norwegian Championship 2019: 12.0812.0834.2815 Nov 201429 Mar 2019

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-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.