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Sakari Rautalin

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 5.1% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2012 · 2012RAUT01

Sakari Rautalin has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 25 moves, set at Kirkkonummi Open 2014, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in Finland. Across 10 competitions since September 2012, he has put 433 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.72 in September 2012 to 10.25, a 53% improvement. Sakari has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 5.1% of 12,294 all-time
25 moves
signature single · Kirkkonummi Open 2014
433
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves31.33
top 5.1%7 / 95
3×310.2513.72
top 8.2%110 / 875
3×3 one-handed16.0725.08
top 10.4%46 / 314
Pyraminx6.058.50
top 20.4%190 / 551
2×23.685.24
top 22.4%245 / 671
3×3 blindfolded2:19.497:20.03
top 39.8%25 / 61
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 44:28
early days — 3 solves12 / 24
4×41:10.881:44.77
top 47.7%205 / 388
5×52:43.173:21.08
top 71.8%164 / 232
Megaminx2:55.373:12.09
top 72.4%145 / 188
Skewb14.9317.00
top 78.1%346 / 405
Clock47.63
early days — 3 solves189 / 194

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

Helsinki Open 2012: 21.72Vantaa Open 2013: 14.45Heureka Open 2014: 13.82Kirkkonummi Open 2014: 15.21Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 12.23Finnish Championship 2014: 13.28Finnish Open 2015: 10.25Helsinki Blind Weekend 2015: 11.61Finnish Championship 2015: 12.3310.2521.721 Sep 201223 Oct 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.07 away.

Targets move as he improves.