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Samuel Väliviita

3×3 · top 12.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022VALI01

Samuel Väliviita has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.48, set at Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024, puts him in the top 12.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 156th in Finland. Across 2 competitions since November 2022, he has put 78 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.25 in November 2022 to 11.48, a 29% improvement. Samuel has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 12.1% of 284,439 all-time
11.48
signature single · Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024
78
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×311.4816.18
top 12.1%156 / 875
2×23.205.59
top 16.6%197 / 671
Pyraminx7.099.80
top 28.6%238 / 551
Skewb9.3314.96
top 50.7%254 / 405
4×41:41.51
top 71.6%297 / 388
3×3 one-handed52.61
early days — 2 solves263 / 314
Clock33.05
early days — 1 solve175 / 194
Megaminx3:50.12
early days — 1 solve170 / 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

Level Up Uusimaa 2022: 16.25Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024: 11.4811.4816.2525 Nov 202216 Feb 2024

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 1.48 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.