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Vilma Venäläinen

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023VENA01

Vilma Venäläinen has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.99, set at Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025, puts her in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 98th in Finland. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since March 2023, she has put 384 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.99 in March 2023 to 9.99, a 47% improvement. Vilma has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.99
signature single · Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025
384
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFinland
3×39.9913.42
top 7.4%98 / 875
2×22.724.33
top 11.1%144 / 671

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

Kirkkonummi Time Trial 2023: 18.99Tampere 2023: 18.67Puzzling at the Shopping Centre Plaza in Salo 2023: 16.41Finnish Championship 2023: 15.41Kirkkonummen Kuutiokemut 2023: 14.38Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2024: 14.03Kuopion Kuutiokemut 2024: 15.15Lahen Cubefest 2024: 13.71Pulmapelipäivät 2024: 13.78Juhannus 2024: 12.66Finnish Championship 2024: 12.18Helsinki 2024: 12.24Kirkkonummen Kuutionvääntelyt 2025: 11.37Kampin Kuutiopäivät 2025: 10.34Willimiehen Kuutiopäivät 2025: 9.99Kamppi Cube Weekend 2025: 11.07Hämeenlinna 2026: 14.15Kampin Kuutiopäivät 2026: 11.98Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 11.799.9918.993 Mar 202316 Jul 2026

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.99 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as she improves.