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Olav Rostadmo

3×3 · top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018ROST03

Olav Rostadmo has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.75, set at Norwegian Championship 2021, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 162nd in Norway. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since April 2018, he has put 308 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.50 in April 2018 to 10.75, a 42% improvement. Olav has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.75
signature single · Norwegian Championship 2021
308
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×310.7513.15
top 9.7%162 / 1,609
4×446.2559.16
top 19.9%102 / 590
2×23.635.17
top 21.8%288 / 1,202
Pyraminx6.6911.61
top 25.4%264 / 865
Square-120.8225.27
top 29.8%40 / 153
3×3 one-handed24.7930.87
top 33.7%156 / 513
Skewb8.0911.58
top 42.0%260 / 531
5×52:30.80
top 66.1%186 / 318

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

Norwegian Championship 2018: 18.50Fredrikstad Open 2018: 18.26Kjeller Open 2018: 18.13VI QB'er 2019: 21.54Norwegian Championship 2021: 10.75Romerike Easter Open 2022: 13.36Kjeller Open 2022: 11.74Julekubing 2022: 12.5010.7521.546 Apr 201828 Dec 2022

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 6.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.