VERK XV 2026

Date: May 15 - 16, 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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The competition takes place overnight.
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.

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

Events
Main event
Competitors: 11

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Urho Kinnunen won with an average of 8.60 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Remo Pihel finished second (9.77) and Eetu Lae finished third (9.79).

Atilla Kopecky - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	8.30	10.06	Finland	11.45	13.83	8.93	8.30	9.79
	First round	5	10.08	11.04	Finland	12.54	10.14	11.70	11.28	10.08
2x2x2 Cube	Final	1	1.19	2.28	Finland	2.52	4.25	1.19	3.12	1.21
	First round	2	1.64	2.82	Finland	1.64	3.40	2.73	4.17	2.32
4x4x4 Cube	Final	5	36.55	38.56	Finland	40.62	36.55	37.61	43.70	37.46
	First round	3	32.11	34.69	Finland	40.47	36.75	34.34	32.97	32.11
5x5x5 Cube	Final	6	1:12.81	1:17.81	Finland	1:12.81	1:14.39	1:21.91	1:19.07	1:19.98
	First round	5	1:05.90	1:14.40	Finland	1:13.50	1:05.90	1:16.52	1:13.17	1:19.90
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	2:19.70	2:31.31	Finland	2:19.70	2:52.12	2:22.11
	First round	5	2:19.81	2:21.59	Finland	2:24.03	2:19.81	2:20.92
7x7x7 Cube	Final	6	4:07.55	4:11.34	Finland	4:18.72	4:07.55	4:07.75
	First round	6	3:46.16	4:09.60	Finland	3:46.16	4:17.33	4:25.31
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	6	16.60	21.52	Finland	16.60	23.37	23.31	22.42	18.84
	First round	6	17.20	20.63	Finland	21.71	19.52	20.66	17.20	24.34
Clock	Final	1	3.71	3.91	Finland	DNF	3.71	3.72	3.78	4.23
	First round	1	3.57	4.69	Finland	3.57	3.65	5.20	DNF	5.22
Megaminx	Final	6	1:12.34	1:15.76	Finland	1:17.43	1:16.56	1:12.34	1:38.24	1:13.28
	First round	5	59.64	1:07.09	Finland	59.64	1:11.22	1:01.72	1:08.33	1:28.82
Pyraminx	Final	4	3.44	4.20	Finland	5.15	5.47	3.44	3.78	3.68
	First round	4	2.41	3.98	Finland	5.38	4.46	4.00	3.49	2.41
Skewb	Final	7	1.93	6.43	Finland	5.79	7.40	1.93	9.24	6.11
	First round	3	4.58	5.50	Finland	4.58	6.62	5.29	5.31	5.91
Square-1	Final	2	7.93	11.14	Finland	7.93	11.06	11.55	11.44	10.92
	First round	2	8.54	9.40	Finland	9.77	11.14	9.50	8.54	8.94

Eetu Lae - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	8.13	9.79	Finland	8.13	9.06	9.90	10.88	10.42
	First round	3	8.36	8.76	Finland	8.86	9.02	9.21	8.36	8.39
2x2x2 Cube	Final	2	1.79	2.32	Finland	2.69	1.99	1.79	2.27	7.97
	First round	3	2.05	2.96	Finland	2.27	6.12	3.04	2.05	3.58
4x4x4 Cube	Final	4	35.95	38.19	Finland	51.34	37.89	36.72	39.97	35.95
	First round	6	38.86	42.33	Finland	44.20	38.86	46.68	42.95	39.84
5x5x5 Cube	Final	7	1:15.86	1:36.99	Finland	1:46.85	1:48.34	1:35.11	1:29.02	1:15.86
	First round	7	1:16.40	1:29.18	Finland	1:23.73	1:41.32	1:29.70	1:34.11	1:16.40
6x6x6 Cube	First round	7	2:50.31	2:56.07	Finland	2:58.04	2:59.87	2:50.31
7x7x7 Cube	First round	8	4:54.76	5:05.63	Finland	5:11.78	4:54.76	5:10.34
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	5	17.36	19.95	Finland	17.36	17.66	25.23	20.06	22.13
	First round	2	13.09	14.48	Finland	14.34	13.72	13.09	15.37	19.15
Clock	Final	4	5.19	7.58	Finland	6.60	DNF	7.47	8.66	5.19
	First round	3	4.28	5.91	Finland	7.86	4.28	6.58	5.80	5.34
Megaminx	Final	4	58.90	1:01.53	Finland	1:07.58	1:02.58	1:01.20	1:00.80	58.90
	First round	4	54.71	1:02.22	Finland	1:03.75	1:08.48	54.71	1:00.90	1:02.00
Pyraminx	Final	5	2.80	4.71	Finland	4.90	2.80	5.43	3.80	5.67
	First round	3	2.91	3.51	Finland	2.91	7.12	3.15	3.63	3.75
Skewb	Final	4	2.54	4.49	Finland	5.03	4.80	2.54	8.28	3.64
	First round	2	2.96	4.72	Finland	2.96	3.75	4.51	5.93	5.90
Square-1	Final	6	12.89	23.68	Finland	DNF	12.89	42.80	14.84	13.40
	First round	5	11.10	12.98	Finland	17.37	12.71	12.54	13.69	11.10

Luukas Lempinen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	9.58	10.63	Finland	11.01	10.25	DNF	9.58	10.63
	First round	1	7.53	8.41	Finland	7.53	8.08	8.68	8.48	11.31
2x2x2 Cube	Final	3	1.98	2.60	Finland	1.98	2.32	2.06	5.23	3.42
	First round	5	2.26	3.86	Finland	3.46	5.13	2.26	DNF	2.99
4x4x4 Cube	Final	3	30.40	33.70	Finland	33.81	30.40	32.61	34.69	37.55
	First round	4	30.93	35.25	Finland	35.24	33.68	38.01	36.84	30.93
5x5x5 Cube	Final	1	52.53	53.87	Finland	52.67	56.06	52.89	52.53	1:01.12
	First round	1	46.11	54.51	Finland	54.39	1:00.44	54.17	46.11	54.96
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	1:37.03	1:47.02	Finland	1:37.03	2:01.56	1:42.48
	First round	2	1:42.54	1:47.23	Finland	1:43.05	1:42.54	1:56.09
7x7x7 Cube	Final	1	2:28.36	2:41.59	Finland	2:28.36	2:43.03	2:53.39
	First round	1	2:35.82	2:37.11	Finland	2:36.24	2:39.26	2:35.82
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	2	15.57	17.48	Finland	19.12	19.03	15.57	15.83	17.58
	First round	4	10.94	16.12	Finland	15.33	20.75	12.27	10.94	23.36
Clock	Final	2	4.28	5.00	Finland	4.40	4.28	13.13	6.04	4.56
	First round	6	3.25	8.41	Finland	DNF	3.25	4.68	5.96	14.59
Megaminx	Final	2	45.64	50.16	Finland	49.54	1:01.35	53.24	45.64	47.71
	First round	1	44.24	48.95	Finland	57.20	44.24	51.08	50.36	45.40
Pyraminx	Final	2	2.29	3.42	Finland	2.68	2.29	3.22	4.37	DNF
	First round	2	2.70	3.30	Finland	3.15	3.59	3.71	3.16	2.70
Skewb	Final	2	3.05	4.15	Finland	3.05	5.22	3.41	4.86	4.17
	First round	7	4.85	8.18	Finland	11.36	7.57	6.41	10.56	4.85
Square-1	Final	1	7.67	10.20	Finland	7.67	11.57	DNF	9.51	9.53
	First round	1	6.62	7.65	Finland	8.60	7.43	6.62	6.93	8.78

Mahdi Khan - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	10.23	15.28	Finland	14.77	17.14	10.23	15.29	15.78
	First round	8	13.19	14.39	Finland	14.35	13.19	14.17	14.64	16.91
2x2x2 Cube	Final	7	3.06	6.33	Finland	3.06	5.90	6.69	7.36	6.39
	First round	7	2.81	4.35	Finland	3.18	5.30	5.63	2.81	4.57
4x4x4 Cube	Final	7	40.61	47.36	Finland	52.96	49.49	43.97	48.63	40.61
	First round	7	40.62	47.69	Finland	58.88	45.61	49.91	47.56	40.62
5x5x5 Cube	Final	5	1:11.46	1:15.11	Finland	1:14.80	1:15.62	1:11.46	1:14.92	1:17.53
	First round	6	1:13.34	1:21.44	Finland	1:13.34	1:47.36	1:20.64	1:27.14	1:16.53
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	2:21.13	2:35.96	Finland	2:46.17	2:21.13	2:40.59
	First round	6	2:25.27	2:35.78	Finland	2:33.80	2:48.26	2:25.27
7x7x7 Cube	Final	5	3:41.27	3:57.93	Finland	4:08.80	4:03.72	3:41.27
	First round	5	3:31.20	3:41.32	Finland	3:31.20	3:34.75	3:58.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	8	20.62	27.84	Finland	29.38	28.12	26.03	34.83	20.62
Clock	Final	5	7.10	9.01	Finland	13.07	8.77	8.90	9.35	7.10
	First round	5	5.48	7.99	Finland	7.71	7.31	DNF	8.96	5.48
Megaminx	Final	5	1:06.41	1:11.75	Finland	1:14.78	1:10.63	1:06.41	1:15.82	1:09.83
	First round	6	1:05.60	1:08.48	Finland	1:08.40	1:05.86	1:33.28	1:05.60	1:11.18
Pyraminx	First round	8	7.68	9.65	Finland	13.22	11.33	9.77	7.86	7.68
Skewb	Final	6	3.45	6.07	Finland	3.45	7.48	8.72	6.61	4.11
	First round	6	4.44	7.14	Finland	9.21	4.44	5.15	8.92	7.34
Square-1	First round	7	31.08	39.70	Finland	41.40	31.08	1:00.55	43.17	34.53

Niko Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	9.85	11.35	Finland	11.49	12.46	9.85	10.97	11.59
	First round	6	11.16	13.14	Finland	13.27	11.16	13.47	DNF	12.69
2x2x2 Cube	Final	5	1.96	2.67	Finland	3.20	4.12	1.96	2.68	2.14
	First round	1	2.04	2.57	Finland	2.04	2.44	2.79	3.51	2.49
4x4x4 Cube	Final	6	36.48	39.84	Finland	39.98	48.86	40.23	39.31	36.48
	First round	5	37.25	40.83	Finland	37.25	46.87	37.92	42.46	42.10
5x5x5 Cube	Final	4	1:07.66	1:10.23	Finland	1:18.46	1:09.28	1:12.21	1:07.66	1:09.21
	First round	4	1:07.91	1:09.94	Finland	1:19.41	1:12.80	1:08.40	1:07.91	1:08.62
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:10.06	2:15.26	Finland	2:17.24	2:18.49	2:10.06
	First round	4	2:06.87	2:18.38	Finland	2:30.34	2:17.92	2:06.87
7x7x7 Cube	Final	4	2:54.38	3:07.73	Finland	3:14.54	2:54.38	3:14.28
	First round	4	2:55.07	3:10.37	Finland	3:21.63	2:55.07	3:14.40
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	3	14.29	17.76	Finland	14.29	20.38	16.98	17.24	19.06
	First round	5	16.25	16.91	Finland	16.25	17.32	17.67	16.67	16.73
Clock	Final	3	4.93	5.79	Finland	5.76	5.93	4.93	5.68	6.47
	First round	4	5.34	6.35	Finland	7.05	5.34	6.99	5.77	6.29
Megaminx	First round	7	1:08.19	1:19.36	Finland	1:12.32	1:25.86	1:31.04	1:08.19	1:19.89
Pyraminx	Final	6	4.39	6.87	Finland	7.87	6.96	4.39	7.84	5.82
	First round	6	4.56	5.98	Finland	5.55	6.36	4.56	6.27	6.13
Skewb	Final	5	3.27	5.08	Finland	6.18	4.59	6.82	4.47	3.27
	First round	5	3.33	5.88	Finland	3.33	4.44	9.81	5.09	8.10
Square-1	Final	5	18.07	21.67	Finland	18.07	26.90	20.75	23.94	20.33
	First round	6	19.24	23.96	Finland	23.01	24.37	24.49	31.63	19.24

Oscar Luigi M. Gravador - Italy WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	12.59	14.56	Italy	14.20	15.54	15.53	12.59	13.95
	First round	7	11.39	13.89	Italy	14.31	18.26	13.68	11.39	13.67
2x2x2 Cube	First round	8	2.29	4.41	Italy	5.89	3.84	6.76	2.29	3.49
4x4x4 Cube	First round	9	54.49	59.17	Italy	58.93	57.93	1:06.36	54.49	1:00.65
5x5x5 Cube	First round	9	2:05.79	2:15.29	Italy	2:05.79	2:18.52	2:11.54	2:24.86	2:15.81
6x6x6 Cube	First round	9	4:20.74		Italy	4:20.74
7x7x7 Cube	First round	9	6:22.55		Italy	6:22.55
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	7	23.50	24.10	Italy	23.50	24.94	23.68	23.69	30.35
	First round	7	18.71	24.85	Italy	25.26	25.03	24.27	28.59	18.71
Clock	First round	10	44.59		Italy	DNF	44.59
Megaminx	First round	9	2:25.30	2:38.43	Italy	2:53.39	2:36.27	2:46.38	2:32.63	2:25.30
Pyraminx	First round	10	11.52	14.59	Italy	12.48	12.27	19.01	20.20	11.52
Skewb	First round	10	7.91	14.33	Italy	12.20	20.75	12.32	7.91	18.46

Remo Pihel - Estonia WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	6.95	9.77	Estonia	6.95	9.77	12.72	10.39	9.15
	First round	4	7.51	10.46	Estonia	11.36	10.30	9.73	7.51	DNF
2x2x2 Cube	Final	6	2.29	3.31	Estonia	4.92	3.67	2.29	3.02	3.23
	First round	4	1.98	3.76	Estonia	5.08	1.98	3.71	4.94	2.63
4x4x4 Cube	Final	1	26.71	30.91	Estonia	31.55	26.71	31.39	29.79	34.90
	First round	2	30.03	33.92	Estonia	32.53	35.01	39.59	34.21	30.03
5x5x5 Cube	Final	2	53.20	59.27	Estonia	1:04.00	56.24	53.20	58.60	1:02.96
	First round	2	49.90	59.20	Estonia	57.73	58.60	1:07.55	1:01.27	49.90
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	1:38.75	1:49.23	Estonia	1:51.06	1:57.88	1:38.75
	First round	3	1:51.85	1:54.32	Estonia	1:53.43	1:51.85	1:57.67
7x7x7 Cube	Final	3	2:42.51	2:57.04	Estonia	2:42.51	3:12.17	2:56.45
	First round	3	2:55.52	3:03.90	Estonia	3:03.96	2:55.52	3:12.22
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	4	16.81	18.37	Estonia	17.42	16.81	19.05	18.63	DNF
	First round	3	14.16	15.92	Estonia	17.68	15.66	14.16	14.43	DNF
Megaminx	Final	3	56.21	58.22	Estonia	58.04	1:03.47	59.73	56.88	56.21
	First round	3	45.38	59.73	Estonia	1:03.06	57.95	45.38	1:02.98	58.26
Pyraminx	Final	3	3.35	4.07	Estonia	3.35	4.36	3.97	3.87	4.60
	First round	1	2.37	2.70	Estonia	3.63	2.74	2.37	2.37	2.99
Skewb	Final	3	3.17	4.33	Estonia	5.01	4.04	4.20	4.75	3.17
	First round	4	4.74	5.58	Estonia	5.38	5.75	5.61	4.74	8.54
Square-1	Final	4	9.19	12.01	Estonia	9.19	12.23	12.97	12.86	10.94
	First round	3	9.79	10.50	Estonia	14.85	10.78	10.04	9.79	10.69

Teemu Jokela - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	10	22.88	25.02	Finland	23.48	28.66	30.87	22.93	22.88
2x2x2 Cube	First round	10	5.10	7.06	Finland	5.10	5.45	8.73	25.08	6.99
4x4x4 Cube	First round	10	1:16.15	1:17.83	Finland	1:34.55	1:16.15	1:18.90	1:16.80	1:17.78
5x5x5 Cube	First round	10	2:40.20	2:57.59	Finland	3:02.88	2:40.20	3:12.80	2:52.45	2:57.43
6x6x6 Cube	First round	10	8:43.79		Finland	8:43.79
Clock	First round	9	10.82	DNF	Finland	10.82	DNF	11.58	DNF	10.99
Pyraminx	Final	7	7.17	9.52	Finland	8.46	7.17	16.77	10.74	9.37
	First round	7	7.03	8.20	Finland	8.04	7.03	8.84	10.00	7.71
Skewb	First round	8	7.87	8.66	Finland	7.87	9.29	8.74	8.03	9.21

Tomi Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	11	46.45	53.71	Finland	56.81	50.05	54.27	1:26.79	46.45
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	10	1:57.77	2:20.73	Finland	2:33.60	DNF	2:02.44	2:26.14	1:57.77
Clock	Final	6	11.67	14.07	Finland	13.81	12.92	15.49	19.17	11.67
	First round	7	11.31	13.51	Finland	14.58	13.80	DNF	12.15	11.31

Urho Kinnunen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	7.96	8.60	Finland	8.02	7.96	10.29	9.19	8.58
	First round	2	7.89	8.48	Finland	10.14	8.35	9.17	7.91	7.89
2x2x2 Cube	Final	4	2.16	2.66	Finland	2.18	2.16	4.04	3.43	2.36
	First round	6	1.90	3.90	Finland	5.54	5.20	2.81	1.90	3.69
4x4x4 Cube	Final	2	29.52	31.16	Finland	30.13	32.87	35.00	29.52	30.48
	First round	1	28.42	33.66	Finland	32.62	33.37	34.98	28.42	39.75
5x5x5 Cube	Final	3	57.56	1:03.18	Finland	1:04.57	1:02.48	1:02.88	1:04.17	57.56
	First round	3	58.14	1:00.92	Finland	1:03.32	58.14	1:01.29	59.91	1:01.55
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	1:30.64	1:46.92	Finland	2:03.64	1:30.64	1:46.49
	First round	1	1:36.65	1:41.88	Finland	1:36.65	1:46.36	1:42.64
7x7x7 Cube	Final	2	2:39.63	2:47.96	Finland	2:57.73	2:46.51	2:39.63
	First round	2	2:38.27	2:52.92	Finland	2:38.27	2:46.53	3:13.96
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	1	9.47	11.09	Finland	9.47	10.42	10.57	13.68	12.29
	First round	1	10.50	12.84	Finland	13.37	13.60	11.55	13.76	10.50
Clock	Final	7	3.57	DNF	Finland	8.95	3.57	DNF	DNF	3.98
	First round	2	3.11	5.71	Finland	5.52	3.11	6.72	4.90	12.88
Megaminx	Final	1	41.51	47.15	Finland	48.78	56.37	43.52	49.16	41.51
	First round	2	43.60	50.57	Finland	51.15	52.34	50.76	43.60	49.81
Pyraminx	Final	1	2.74	3.29	Finland	8.04	3.76	2.74	3.12	3.00
	First round	5	2.08	4.02	Finland	2.08	4.01	3.76	4.49	4.30
Skewb	Final	1	1.17	2.66	Finland	2.80	4.35	1.17	1.52	3.67
	First round	1	1.47	3.58	Finland	2.42	1.47	4.95	5.54	3.36
Square-1	Final	3	9.06	11.35	Finland	26.03	10.57	10.62	12.87	9.06
	First round	4	8.70	12.72	Finland	17.61	15.79	11.49	8.70	10.87

Viljami Mettovaara - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	9	14.07	16.84	Finland	18.82	15.03	16.68	14.07	23.84
2x2x2 Cube	First round	9	2.01	5.30	Finland	5.05	5.86	5.52	2.01	5.34
4x4x4 Cube	First round	8	50.42	53.28	Finland	57.66	52.77	50.42	56.37	50.69
5x5x5 Cube	First round	8	1:38.47	1:47.60	Finland	1:58.44	1:38.47	1:43.38	2:01.73	1:40.99
6x6x6 Cube	First round	8	3:43.48		Finland	3:43.48
7x7x7 Cube	First round	7	4:35.62	4:46.53	Finland	4:56.97	4:35.62	4:47.00
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	9	28.21	30.43	Finland	28.21	37.53	30.31	31.29	29.68
Clock	First round	8	12.70	18.14	Finland	DNF	12.70	19.06	18.95	16.40
Megaminx	First round	8	1:36.95	1:50.97	Finland	1:36.95	1:58.55	1:42.86	1:51.50	2:00.08
Pyraminx	First round	9	7.13	10.04	Finland	7.13	13.56	8.99	10.55	10.58
Skewb	First round	9	6.38	9.45	Finland	6.38	12.05	7.48	10.87	9.99
Square-1	First round	8	40.46		Finland	45.85	40.46