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Toivo Pekkarinen

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023PEKK01

Toivo Pekkarinen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.58, set at Lahen Cubefest 2024, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in Finland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2023, he has put 870 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 7 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.72 in January 2023 to 8.58, a 59% improvement. Toivo has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.58
signature single · Lahen Cubefest 2024
870
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×38.5811.88
top 3.9%56 / 875
2×21.903.47
top 4.1%56 / 671
Pyraminx3.918.46
top 7.2%70 / 551
Skewb3.716.73
top 9.0%67 / 405
3×3 one-handed19.8723.60
top 20.1%86 / 314
Clock9.0611.41
top 20.3%62 / 194
4×447.7154.18
top 21.8%104 / 388
5×51:23.501:31.66
top 22.0%57 / 232
Square-119.9029.23
top 27.8%58 / 155
Megaminx1:54.74—
top 43.0%90 / 188
6×63:24.394:05.03
top 52.5%59 / 116
7×75:48.66—
top 64.8%62 / 99
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
early days — 2 solves83 / 95

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

Sormet Jäässä Järvenpäässä 2023: 20.72Kirkkonummi Time Trial 2023: 21.02Autotalo All Events 2023: 17.14Tampere 2023: 14.98Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2023: 12.70Autotalo 2023: 12.69Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023: 12.51Finnish Championship 2023: 10.83Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024: 11.43Deutsche Cube Days Helsinki 2024: 10.88Lahen Cubefest 2024: 8.58Finnish Championship 2024: 9.90Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2025: 10.488.5821.0228 Jan 20234 Apr 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.