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Petri Vanhala

3×3 · top 44.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005VANH02

Petri Vanhala has been competing for 21 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.47, set at Heureka Open 2014, puts him in the top 44.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 459th in Finland. Across 34 competitions since September 2005, he has put 361 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 44.45 in September 2005 to 21.47, a 52% improvement. Petri has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 44.0% of 284,439 all-time
21.47
signature single · Heureka Open 2014
361
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×321.4730.00
top 44.0%459 / 875
2×26.6610.94
top 57.5%486 / 671
3×3 one-handed43.8352.78
top 70.3%222 / 314
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves—
top 71.5%77 / 95
Clock29.6134.74
top 83.8%166 / 194
Pyraminx17.9723.85
top 89.8%529 / 551
4×42:39.332:54.10
top 93.6%368 / 388
5×56:28.046:43.47
top 99.1%230 / 232
Megaminx9:40.88—
early days — 1 solve189 / 188

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

Swedish Open 2005: 44.45SveKub Annual Meeting competition 2006: 33.93European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006: 41.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 40.69Swedish Cube Day competition 2007: 32.88Vaasa Open 2009: 35.36Finnish Open 2010: 32.34Estonian Open 2010: 28.46Kotka Open 2011: 35.56Kirkkonummi Open 2011: 38.91Tallinn Open 2011: 36.18Estonian Open 2011: 30.15Finnish Open 2011: 42.55Karstula Open 2012: 31.15Helsinki Open 2012: 34.65Latvian Open 2012: 28.50Estonian Open 2012: 30.55Finnish Open 2012: 27.44Danish Open 2013: 27.16Vantaa Open 2013: 27.82Heureka Open 2013: 25.47Estonian Open 2013: 21.96Finnish Open 2013: 23.38Heureka Open 2014: 21.47Finnish Championship 2014: 25.03Helsinki Blind Weekend 2015: 27.9421.4744.4510 Sep 200515 Aug 2015

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.