VERK XIV 2026

Date: Apr 11 - 12, 2026
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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Competitors: 12

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Vincent von Schantz won with an average of 7.12 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Urho Kinnunen finished second (7.84) and Luukas Lempinen finished third (8.86).

Aarni Salakari - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	8.68	9.70	Finland	10.46	10.83	8.68	9.02	9.63
	First round	3	8.43	9.48	Finland	10.55	8.43	8.74	10.74	9.16
2x2x2 Cube	Final	4	2.60	2.83	Finland	5.36	3.02	2.86	2.60	2.62
	First round	5	1.77	3.26	Finland	4.59	1.77	1.91	10.70	3.29
4x4x4 Cube	Final	2	29.54	30.76	Finland	29.54	31.18	32.96	30.60	30.50
	First round	2	29.79	32.98	Finland	32.80	33.42	32.88	33.26	29.79
5x5x5 Cube	Final	3	1:02.33	1:03.30	Finland	1:03.71	1:02.91	1:03.28	1:02.33	1:05.21
	First round	3	1:01.49	1:05.30	Finland	1:06.38	1:07.90	1:04.58	1:01.49	1:04.95
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	1:53.56	1:59.89	Finland	1:59.92	2:06.20	1:53.56
	First round	3	1:55.54	2:02.05	Finland	2:09.07	2:01.55	1:55.54
7x7x7 Cube	Final	4	3:15.01	3:21.45	Finland	3:28.36	3:20.99	3:15.01
	First round	3	3:06.37	3:09.53	Finland	3:13.45	3:06.37	3:08.77
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	First round	2	36	39.00	Finland	43	36	38
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	3	14.80	15.16	Finland	15.60	14.83	17.23	15.05	14.80
	First round	2	13.14	16.77	Finland	15.09	22.41	20.14	15.08	13.14
Clock	Final	1	2.31	3.16	Finland	3.24	3.23	DNF	3.02	2.31
	First round	1	3.15	4.74	Finland	DNF	4.02	3.15	4.40	5.79
Megaminx	Final	4	1:02.02	1:07.25	Finland	1:02.02	1:10.52	1:03.99	1:07.25	1:13.54
	First round	4	55.83	1:00.64	Finland	1:07.27	1:06.33	56.16	55.83	59.44
Pyraminx	Final	6	1.83	4.36	Finland	1.83	4.62	8.32	4.92	3.55
	First round	5	3.71	4.66	Finland	4.48	4.79	3.71	5.08	4.72
Skewb	Final	6	4.46	7.60	Finland	5.66	10.83	6.32	15.07	4.46
	First round	6	6.00	6.54	Finland	7.23	6.00	6.03	6.36	8.48
Square-1	Final	2	7.88	9.29	Finland	7.88	9.43	12.83	8.29	10.15
	First round	3	9.87	11.74	Finland	12.25	9.87	15.30	12.05	10.91

Ahti Isohanni - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	9.53	11.64	Finland	11.72	15.77	12.28	10.92	9.53
	First round	7	9.95	11.62	Finland	12.86	11.25	9.95	10.76	14.87
2x2x2 Cube	First round	8	2.23	4.16	Finland	3.97	7.96	4.15	2.23	4.36
4x4x4 Cube	Final	6	43.93	45.14	Finland	44.42	43.93	46.52	44.48	47.62
	First round	6	39.16	44.33	Finland	45.25	45.69	39.16	46.90	42.04
5x5x5 Cube	Final	6	1:22.04	1:28.36	Finland	1:28.75	1:24.18	1:38.28	1:32.16	1:22.04
	First round	6	1:23.84	1:34.25	Finland	1:37.15	1:25.73	1:39.88	1:23.84	1:46.89
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	2:53.06	2:55.95	Finland	3:00.08	2:53.06	2:54.72
	First round	6	2:59.03		Finland	2:59.03
7x7x7 Cube	First round	8	5:02.65		Finland	5:02.65
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	First round	7	DNF	DNF	Finland	DNF	DNS	DNS
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	7	19.52	21.96	Finland	21.83	21.33	28.44	22.73	19.52
	First round	5	18.88	21.53	Finland	23.79	DNF	18.88	20.90	19.90
Clock	Final	7	DNF	DNF	Finland	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
	First round	6	6.10	7.16	Finland	6.10	DNF	7.70	6.88	6.90
Megaminx	Final	3	54.90	1:01.50	Finland	1:01.93	1:01.22	1:01.35	1:10.38	54.90
	First round	3	53.78	58.53	Finland	1:02.49	54.87	1:03.00	58.23	53.78
Pyraminx	Final	4	1.71	4.19	Finland	1.71	3.66	5.77	3.70	5.20
	First round	6	3.38	4.84	Finland	4.95	5.57	5.21	3.38	4.35
Skewb	First round	8	6.13	7.53	Finland	8.34	6.23	6.13	8.60	8.02
Square-1	Final	6	15.02	17.40	Finland	23.44	17.27	16.04	18.88	15.02
	First round	6	13.03	15.71	Finland	DNF	14.15	14.54	18.45	13.03

Atilla Kopecky - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	8.49	9.43	Finland	9.54	9.13	9.63	8.49	9.81
	First round	9	9.06	12.10	Finland	12.29	9.06	DNF	11.11	12.90
2x2x2 Cube	Final	6	2.87	4.36	Finland	DNF	3.94	2.87	4.44	4.70
	First round	4	2.60	3.25	Finland	4.28	2.60	2.81	2.66	5.21
5x5x5 Cube	Final	4	1:09.71	1:14.03	Finland	1:24.01	1:15.84	1:09.71	1:15.12	1:11.13
	First round	5	1:16.88	1:22.11	Finland	1:26.10	1:22.50	1:17.72	1:16.88	DNS
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	2:30.60	2:31.64	Finland	2:30.60	2:30.96	2:33.37
	First round	5	2:27.44	2:31.66	Finland	2:27.44	2:29.91	2:37.62
7x7x7 Cube	Final	5	3:57.71	4:12.54	Finland	4:29.51	3:57.71	4:10.40
	First round	5	4:30.90		Finland	4:30.90
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	2	36	37.67	Finland	36	37	40
	First round	3	42	44.67	Finland	45	47	42
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	6	16.03	19.92	Finland	22.83	18.17	16.03	29.18	18.77
	First round	7	19.66	23.28	Finland	19.66	24.92	20.41	25.62	24.52
Clock	Final	5	3.26	DNF	Finland	DNF	5.95	3.46	DNF	3.26
	First round	3	4.26	6.24	Finland	DNF	5.28	4.99	4.26	8.44
Megaminx	First round	8	1:22.46	1:31.26	Finland	2:03.56	1:28.64	1:25.03	1:22.46	1:40.11
Pyraminx	Final	3	1.88	3.43	Finland	1.88	3.84	4.07	2.37	6.36
	First round	2	2.35	3.64	Finland	2.35	3.68	3.36	3.88	5.30
Skewb	Final	5	5.01	6.30	Finland	9.53	5.27	6.82	6.82	5.01
	First round	5	4.40	6.49	Finland	9.36	4.40	4.64	5.78	9.06
Square-1	Final	3	9.90	12.34	Finland	13.16	11.16	9.90	12.70	23.68
	First round	2	8.79	11.25	Finland	8.79	14.26	13.75	9.33	10.66

Dimitrios Tolios Andrikopoulos - Greece WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	11	14.33	16.59	Greece	14.33	18.60	15.94	20.32	15.22
2x2x2 Cube	First round	10	5.27	6.61	Greece	7.05	26.60	5.27	6.21	6.56
4x4x4 Cube	First round	9	54.63	1:07.58	Greece	1:29.57	1:16.00	54.63	1:01.67	1:05.07
5x5x5 Cube	First round	9	1:47.38	1:59.88	Greece	2:03.11	2:08.21	1:48.33	DNF	1:47.38
6x6x6 Cube	First round	8	3:10.80		Greece	3:10.80
7x7x7 Cube	Final	6	4:52.77	5:04.00	Greece	4:52.77	5:02.19	5:17.03
	First round	6	4:31.13		Greece	4:31.13
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	10	1:34.47		Greece	DNF	1:34.47
Clock	First round	10	22.74	28.65	Greece	25.23	22.74	37.21	DNF	23.50
Megaminx	First round	10	1:49.50		Greece	1:49.50	2:21.75
Skewb	First round	9	9.47	17.54	Greece	30.80	18.39	14.09	9.47	20.13
Square-1	First round	10	52.95		Greece	1:27.43	52.95

Eetu Lae - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	9	9.68	11.68	Finland	13.04	12.15	13.06	9.85	9.68
	First round	5	9.98	10.25	Finland	10.32	14.67	10.03	9.98	10.41
2x2x2 Cube	Final	3	1.92	2.83	Finland	2.88	2.80	2.81	1.92	3.99
	First round	2	1.93	2.57	Finland	3.63	2.54	1.93	2.33	2.85
4x4x4 Cube	Final	4	30.54	36.06	Finland	40.99	39.32	33.27	35.60	30.54
	First round	5	41.37	44.20	Finland	45.27	45.93	45.51	41.37	41.81
5x5x5 Cube	Final	7	1:21.36	1:31.53	Finland	1:45.59	1:31.85	1:21.52	1:41.23	1:21.36
	First round	7	1:29.35	1:35.20	Finland	1:45.25	1:40.95	1:29.35	1:32.96	1:31.70
6x6x6 Cube	First round	7	3:03.69		Finland	3:03.69
7x7x7 Cube	First round	7	5:02.42		Finland	5:02.42
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	3	43	45.00	Finland	43	43	49
	First round	5	41	DNF	Finland	41	DNS	DNS
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	4	17.34	18.23	Finland	19.52	17.58	19.71	17.34	17.58
	First round	4	14.76	18.94	Finland	15.24	15.60	14.76	25.98	DNF
Clock	Final	4	6.29	8.89	Finland	6.29	7.59	6.34	DNF	12.74
	First round	7	8.29	9.12	Finland	8.77	10.23	8.29	8.35	11.18
Megaminx	Final	5	1:03.78	1:15.00	Finland	1:15.58	1:16.13	1:15.24	1:03.78	1:14.19
	First round	5	57.50	1:05.02	Finland	57.50	1:05.07	1:06.95	1:03.03	1:07.28
Pyraminx	Final	5	2.73	4.20	Finland	2.73	4.25	5.90	3.00	5.34
	First round	4	3.22	3.69	Finland	3.22	3.33	4.31	3.50	4.23
Skewb	Final	3	2.52	4.30	Finland	2.52	3.76	6.71	3.18	5.95
	First round	2	3.77	4.18	Finland	4.57	3.77	4.03	6.71	3.94
Square-1	Final	5	11.92	15.66	Finland	16.66	18.25	13.56	11.92	16.76
	First round	4	11.85	14.32	Finland	11.85	13.66	21.22	16.44	12.87

Ilmari Arima - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	9.23	11.33	Finland	11.12	11.61	9.23	11.63	11.27
	First round	6	9.92	11.18	Finland	11.61	10.64	11.28	14.26	9.92
2x2x2 Cube	First round	9	3.96	5.19	Finland	3.96	6.83	5.71	5.81	4.06
4x4x4 Cube	First round	7	46.24	51.02	Finland	54.55	49.04	46.24	50.69	53.34
5x5x5 Cube	First round	8	1:39.82	1:50.95	Finland	1:39.82	1:51.48	1:51.07	1:50.30	2:02.14
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	9	20.97	30.76	Finland	31.17	20.97	33.40	32.95	28.17
Megaminx	Final	6	1:05.21	1:18.51	Finland	1:05.21	1:19.81	1:34.78	1:14.85	1:20.88
	First round	6	1:04.95	1:13.61	Finland	1:13.23	1:18.37	1:09.22	1:18.43	1:04.95
Pyraminx	First round	8	5.36	6.86	Finland	12.43	6.51	6.66	5.36	7.40
Square-1	First round	8	24.68	31.06	Finland	40.89	24.68	25.32	33.97	33.88

Luukas Lempinen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	7.32	8.86		Finland	9.12	7.32	8.62	9.68	8.83
	First round	4	8.31	10.21		Finland	8.31	10.63	10.52	12.24	9.49
2x2x2 Cube	Final	1	2.20	2.68		Finland	2.55	2.71	2.79	DNF	2.20
	First round	1	1.50	1.94		Finland	2.09	2.11	1.50	4.33	1.61
4x4x4 Cube	Final	3	27.80	31.02		Finland	27.80	30.04	29.94	33.09	33.79
	First round	3	28.67	33.77		Finland	34.19	39.55	28.67	33.39	33.74
5x5x5 Cube	Final	1	49.75	55.94		Finland	54.76	49.75	56.31	57.16	56.76
	First round	1	52.05	56.83		Finland	52.05	59.75	58.34	52.39	1:00.31
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	1:34.63	1:38.33		Finland	1:42.45	1:34.63	1:37.90
	First round	1	1:36.08	1:39.37		Finland	1:36.08	1:43.48	1:38.54
7x7x7 Cube	Final	1	2:28.55	2:38.71		Finland	2:39.77	2:47.81	2:28.55
	First round	1	2:34.99	2:44.15		Finland	2:43.22	2:34.99	2:54.23
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	1	31	32.00		Finland	32	33	31
	First round	1	32	33.00		Finland	32	33	34
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	2	12.56	15.05		Finland	18.09	14.26	24.06	12.81	12.56
	First round	3	15.46	17.20		Finland	15.46	20.97	16.97	18.93	15.70
Clock	Final	2	4.07	6.04		Finland	4.83	9.60	5.58	7.70	4.07
	First round	4	4.07	6.60		Finland	4.07	17.39	5.57	6.24	7.99
Megaminx	Final	1	46.10	50.51		Finland	56.74	DNF	46.10	47.94	46.85
	First round	2	46.84	52.98		Finland	59.14	46.84	52.63	56.52	49.80
Pyraminx	Final	2	1.99	3.37		Finland	2.41	6.03	4.46	1.99	3.24
	First round	1	2.34	3.05		Finland	2.34	3.49	2.69	2.96	6.61
Skewb	Final	1	1.76	3.19		Finland	3.03	4.32	1.76	3.48	3.06
	First round	3	3.30	4.65		Finland	4.26	4.32	DNF	5.36	3.30
Square-1	Final	1	6.73	7.81		Finland	6.73	7.24	9.10	7.10	9.20
	First round	1	6.16	6.66	NR	Finland	13.76	6.16	7.19	6.59	6.19

Niko Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	9.72	11.18	Finland	9.72	12.27	11.52	9.75	12.91
	First round	8	10.34	11.77	Finland	10.34	12.45	DNF	10.85	12.00
2x2x2 Cube	Final	5	2.10	3.42	Finland	2.28	3.27	7.51	4.72	2.10
	First round	7	2.53	4.08	Finland	7.07	2.58	2.60	7.97	2.53
4x4x4 Cube	Final	5	35.95	37.93	Finland	38.34	35.95	39.36	39.73	36.10
	First round	4	36.06	42.07	Finland	47.58	39.60	36.06	44.18	42.42
5x5x5 Cube	Final	5	1:08.24	1:14.94	Finland	1:18.31	1:08.24	1:14.31	1:16.40	1:14.10
	First round	4	1:01.85	1:10.98	Finland	1:10.63	1:15.00	1:07.31	1:01.85	1:17.56
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:01.36	2:04.27	Finland	2:01.36	2:03.36	2:08.09
	First round	4	2:06.51	2:09.09	Finland	2:10.97	2:06.51	2:09.79
7x7x7 Cube	Final	3	3:01.42	3:09.82	Finland	3:12.21	3:15.84	3:01.42
	First round	4	3:08.01	3:12.98	Finland	3:21.33	3:09.60	3:08.01
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	4	71	72.00	Finland	72	73	71
	First round	4	62	72.67	Finland	62	80	76
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	5	16.34	19.28	Finland	20.65	18.38	18.82	16.34	21.91
	First round	6	18.67	22.66	Finland	19.11	18.67	21.36	27.52	DNF
Clock	Final	3	5.31	6.18	Finland	6.85	6.36	6.26	5.93	5.31
	First round	5	5.73	6.88	Finland	6.44	7.97	7.10	5.73	7.10
Megaminx	Final	7	1:13.56	1:19.29	Finland	1:18.97	1:19.94	1:13.56	1:22.92	1:18.96
	First round	7	1:13.87	1:20.49	Finland	1:18.96	1:27.34	1:24.68	1:13.87	1:17.83
Pyraminx	First round	7	3.57	4.89	Finland	5.32	5.35	3.57	4.94	4.40
Skewb	Final	4	3.68	4.49	Finland	5.50	4.49	3.68	4.51	4.46
	First round	4	3.45	4.81	Finland	5.37	8.09	4.63	4.42	3.45
Square-1	Final	7	22.23	25.35	Finland	29.10	25.70	22.23	25.58	24.77
	First round	7	19.52	23.33	Finland	22.73	21.97	19.52	28.84	25.28

Tomi Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	12	46.35	51.40	Finland	46.35	1:04.59	47.79	47.05	59.35
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	5	64	DNF	Finland	DNF	64	71
	First round	6	59	DNF	Finland	59	DNF	66
Clock	First round	8	11.10	13.61	Finland	14.83	14.11	11.89	18.04	11.10

Urho Kinnunen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	5.36	7.84	Finland	7.64	9.29	5.36	6.99	8.89
	First round	2	7.37	8.06	Finland	8.21	7.79	7.37	8.90	8.18
2x2x2 Cube	Final	2	2.18	2.72	Finland	2.18	6.38	2.60	2.68	2.87
	First round	3	2.07	2.84	Finland	2.07	2.12	4.66	3.49	2.92
4x4x4 Cube	Final	1	26.49	30.45	Finland	31.94	30.65	26.49	28.75	32.57
	First round	1	30.20	31.22	Finland	30.20	31.80	30.99	31.28	31.40
5x5x5 Cube	Final	2	58.02	59.30	Finland	58.06	1:02.88	58.02	1:01.69	58.14
	First round	2	55.76	1:04.56	Finland	55.76	1:06.96	1:04.57	1:02.15	1:08.69
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	1:35.65	1:38.08	Finland	1:35.65	1:38.70	1:39.89
	First round	2	1:36.12	1:42.49	Finland	1:42.73	1:36.12	1:48.63
7x7x7 Cube	Final	2	2:44.01	2:50.91	Finland	2:44.01	2:44.55	3:04.18
	First round	2	2:37.52	2:51.41	Finland	2:37.52	3:01.91	2:54.80
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	First round	7	DNF	DNF	Finland	DNF	DNS	DNS
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	1	9.97	13.07	Finland	9.97	12.16	13.96	15.36	13.08
	First round	1	9.93	12.69	Finland	12.81	15.10	11.67	13.58	9.93
Clock	Final	6	3.37	DNF	Finland	3.37	10.29	4.61	DNF	DNF
	First round	2	3.91	4.99	Finland	8.47	4.90	4.42	3.91	5.66
Megaminx	Final	2	45.32	55.40	Finland	46.94	1:01.16	1:02.20	45.32	58.10
	First round	1	42.35	52.71	Finland	56.79	53.81	54.91	49.41	42.35
Pyraminx	Final	1	1.75	2.87	Finland	1.75	3.54	3.80	2.84	2.23
	First round	3	2.72	3.64	Finland	3.28	4.14	4.29	2.72	3.50
Skewb	Final	2	2.24	3.33	Finland	2.24	4.49	3.08	4.75	2.41
	First round	1	1.73	2.55	Finland	2.39	2.84	2.45	1.73	2.80
Square-1	Final	4	9.84	13.85	Finland	9.84	17.62	15.25	10.05	16.26
	First round	5	10.68	14.34	Finland	17.06	12.03	13.93	22.31	10.68

Vincent von Schantz - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	6.58		7.12		Finland	6.72	7.13	7.52	6.58	7.58
	First round	1	6.20		7.03		Finland	8.44	6.85	6.20	6.40	7.83

Väinö Leppänen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	10	12.78	13.95	Finland	15.12	12.80	15.78	12.78	13.93
2x2x2 Cube	Final	7	4.73	5.23	Finland	5.57	5.32	4.79	4.73	7.00
	First round	6	2.57	3.89	Finland	4.95	4.12	3.84	2.57	3.71
4x4x4 Cube	First round	8	56.62	59.69	Finland	1:21.25	56.82	56.62	1:00.32	1:01.92
5x5x5 Cube	First round	10	1:42.76	2:00.77	Finland	2:08.14	1:47.42	2:06.74	1:42.76	2:14.28
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	8	24.26	26.70	Finland	25.85	30.11	27.91	24.26	26.34
Clock	First round	9	13.16	17.16	Finland	16.76	18.36	16.35	21.79	13.16
Megaminx	First round	9	1:37.51	1:45.78	Finland	1:37.51	1:50.08	1:41.89	1:59.04	1:45.36
Pyraminx	First round	9	6.71	8.53	Finland	10.27	9.95	8.36	6.71	7.28
Skewb	First round	7	4.50	7.17	Finland	7.84	8.03	6.48	4.50	7.20
Square-1	First round	9	27.06	46.81	Finland	46.54	27.06	45.28	50.28	48.60