VERK IX 2025

Date: Oct 25 - 26, 2025
City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue: VERK
Address: Sörnäistenkatu 1
Details: Instructions emailed to registered competitors
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Niko Ronkainen, Speedcubing Finland ry, and Tomi Ronkainen
WCA Delegates: Niko Ronkainen and Tomi Ronkainen

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Information

Please read through the regulations before the competition.
We highly recommend not bringing any guests. However, we're required to allow 1 guest per competitor.

Lue säännöt (englanniksi, suomeksi) ennen kilpailua.
Suosittelemme saapumaan ilman vieraita. Joudumme kuitenkin sallimaan yhden vieraan per kilpailija.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 14

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There is a competitor limit of 22 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is €15 (Euro).
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No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

The waiting list will be ordered by time of payment.

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Urho Kinnunen won with an average of 8.30 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Leo Alanen finished second (9.78) and Antto Pitkänen finished third (9.97).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Urho Kinnunen	7.98	8.30	Finland	8.40	8.47	8.64	7.98	8.04
2	Leo Alanen	8.20	9.78	Finland	9.05	9.76	10.79	8.20	10.54
3	Antto Pitkänen	8.66	9.97	Finland	8.66	9.72	10.31	9.87	10.42

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Urho Kinnunen	1.44	2.07	Finland	1.44	1.66	2.91	1.65	3.80
2	Niilo Eskelinen	1.22	2.36	Finland	1.22	2.56	2.66	1.86	3.44
3	Atilla Kopecky	2.26	2.62	Finland	2.61	2.29	3.00	2.26	2.95

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Luukas Lempinen	30.10	30.96	Finland	32.18	30.42	30.29	30.10	DNF
2	Antto Pitkänen	27.72	31.12	Finland	31.21	27.72	36.48	30.76	31.40
3	Aarni Salakari	29.77	32.75	Finland	31.03	29.77	32.85	34.58	34.36

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Luukas Lempinen	51.77	55.04	Finland	55.65	59.13	56.20	53.28	51.77
2	Urho Kinnunen	55.27	1:02.09	Finland	1:00.46	59.02	1:06.78	55.27	DNF
3	Leo Alanen	56.85	1:03.66	Finland	1:05.28	1:12.65	59.60	56.85	1:06.11

6x6x6 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Luukas Lempinen	1:44.25	1:53.83	Finland	1:45.76	2:11.47	1:44.25
2	Antto Pitkänen	1:52.68	1:58.47	Finland	2:02.59	1:52.68	2:00.13
3	Urho Kinnunen	1:49.44	2:07.65	Finland	2:03.36	2:30.15	1:49.44

7x7x7 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Luukas Lempinen	2:49.42	2:55.71	Finland	2:49.42	2:57.63	3:00.09
2	Urho Kinnunen	2:52.96	3:01.51	Finland	2:52.96	2:58.93	3:12.63
3	Leo Alanen	3:03.96	3:12.63	Finland	3:24.56	3:09.38	3:03.96

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Urho Kinnunen	9.45	13.85	Finland	14.07	13.96	13.92	13.67	9.45
2	Antto Pitkänen	13.59	15.21	Finland	16.02	13.83	15.79	13.59	17.54
3	Luukas Lempinen	14.22	15.47	Finland	14.62	14.77	17.03	26.64	14.22

Clock

#	Name	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
1	Aarni Salakari	2.59	NR	2.99	Finland	2.93	3.69	3.42	2.59	2.62
2	Leo Alanen	3.84		4.23	Finland	4.65	3.84	6.86	4.01	4.04
3	Luukas Lempinen	4.42		5.33	Finland	4.82	4.42	5.04	DNF	6.12

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ahti Isohanni	47.40	51.19	Finland	51.51	1:02.38	47.40	51.75	50.32
2	Urho Kinnunen	53.43	54.73	Finland	53.43	54.43	56.06	55.60	54.15
3	Luukas Lempinen	41.30	55.38	Finland	55.69	DNF	41.30	54.22	56.23

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Antto Pitkänen	2.64	3.13	Finland	3.18	4.27	3.03	2.64	3.18
2	Urho Kinnunen	1.52	3.43	Finland	4.95	1.52	3.02	3.87	3.40
3	Atilla Kopecky	1.54	4.01	Finland	3.87	1.54	4.86	6.09	3.30

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Urho Kinnunen	1.55	3.06	Finland	4.36	3.39	3.16	2.63	1.55
2	Antto Pitkänen	2.69	3.49	Finland	2.69	4.63	4.78	3.15	2.70
3	Leo Alanen	3.23	4.25	Finland	3.40	3.23	4.99	9.46	4.37

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Niilo Eskelinen	6.53	7.46	Finland	12.63	7.84	6.53	7.51	7.03
2	Luukas Lempinen	6.37	7.91	Finland	7.65	6.37	8.61	7.46	DNF
3	Aarni Salakari	8.12	9.38	Finland	9.95	8.12	9.72	8.48	12.07