VERK II 2025

Date: Feb 8, 2025
City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue: VERK
Address: Sörnäistenkatu 1
Details: Instructions emailed to registered competitors
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Niko Ronkainen and Tomi Ronkainen
WCA Delegates: Niko Ronkainen and Tomi Ronkainen

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 18

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Luukas Lempinen won with an average of 15.81 seconds in the 3x3x3 One-Handed event. Lauri Korhonen finished second (15.92) and Antto Pitkänen finished third (16.34).

Aarni Salakari - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	4	58.39		1:08.69	Finland	1:08.80	58.39	1:13.20	1:09.27	1:07.99
	Second round	6	1:08.15		1:15.33	Finland	1:18.52	1:08.15	1:14.85	1:23.96	1:12.62
	First round	5	1:05.44		1:13.81	Finland	1:10.65	1:19.55	1:05.44	1:18.16	1:12.63
6x6x6 Cube	Final	7	2:25.81		2:29.62	Finland	2:25.81	2:33.72	2:29.33
	First round	7	2:22.85		2:29.84	Finland	2:27.45	2:39.23	2:22.85
7x7x7 Cube	Final	7	4:08.00		4:17.13	Finland	4:29.47	4:08.00	4:13.93
	First round	7	3:48.10		3:50.02	Finland	3:48.95	3:48.10	3:53.02
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	5	15.18		18.61	Finland	15.18	16.78	19.49	23.52	19.55
	Second round	6	13.67		19.01	Finland	17.12	20.35	21.49	19.57	13.67
	First round	7	17.59		20.44	Finland	23.50	23.86	17.59	17.73	20.10
Clock	Final	1	3.51		4.69	Finland	3.51	5.12	5.39	5.35	3.60
	Second round	1	2.89	NR	5.15	Finland	4.69	5.77	5.06	5.69	2.89
	First round	1	3.87		4.30	Finland	4.48	3.87	7.60	4.11	4.30
Megaminx	Final	8	1:06.52		1:15.17	Finland	1:15.20	1:06.52	1:16.69	1:13.63	1:19.89
	First round	8	1:10.36		1:19.15	Finland	1:20.31	1:21.58	1:19.56	1:17.58	1:10.36
Square-1	Final	3	7.25		9.80	Finland	7.25	9.97	16.05	8.75	10.67
	First round	3	8.53		13.04	Finland	8.53	15.69	14.00	14.24	10.87

Aaron Fabritius - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	14	29.91	37.86	Finland	47.51	29.91	36.15	35.27	42.15
Clock	Second round	10	9.71	10.74	Finland	11.25	9.82	12.44	9.71	11.16
	First round	12	8.48	9.49	Finland	9.11	11.22	10.29	9.08	8.48
Square-1	Final	10	16.97	32.77	Finland	30.82	36.20	16.97	31.28	37.43
	First round	8	15.05	24.68	Finland	25.73	28.46	19.85	29.61	15.05

Ahti Isohanni - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Second round	10	1:59.46		Finland	1:59.46	2:01.40
	First round	11	1:45.56		Finland	1:51.36	1:45.56
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	7	23.60	27.56	Finland	25.88	27.24	23.60	29.57	DNF
	Second round	7	17.03	19.50	Finland	17.03	DNF	21.04	17.05	20.41
	First round	9	19.89	21.93	Finland	20.83	19.89	24.94	25.75	20.01
Clock	Second round	9	6.74	10.70	Finland	10.84	6.74	DNF	10.64	10.61
	First round	9	7.56	8.73	Finland	DNF	7.56	9.84	7.87	8.49
Megaminx	Final	6	1:00.17	1:03.11	Finland	1:05.22	1:09.10	1:02.19	1:00.17	1:01.91
	First round	5	52.10	1:02.75	Finland	1:02.63	52.10	1:00.78	1:09.33	1:04.85
Square-1	Final	9	23.97	29.23	Finland	23.97	33.82	56.45	29.28	24.60
	First round	7	19.10	23.17	Finland	31.14	26.77	20.00	22.75	19.10

Andreas Wagner - Austria WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	6	1:12.63	1:16.72	Austria	1:12.63	1:17.93	1:17.19	1:29.73	1:15.05
	Second round	7	1:12.99	1:15.92	Austria	1:17.11	1:17.57	1:19.13	1:13.07	1:12.99
	First round	8	1:15.41	1:19.36	Austria	1:21.59	1:31.68	1:18.97	1:15.41	1:17.51
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:19.82	2:22.71	Austria	2:25.60	2:22.72	2:19.82
	First round	2	2:10.34	2:17.11	Austria	2:23.40	2:17.60	2:10.34
7x7x7 Cube	Final	3	3:02.70	3:14.12	Austria	3:17.62	3:22.05	3:02.70
	First round	2	3:02.39	3:14.06	Austria	3:02.39	3:25.04	3:14.76
3x3x3 One-Handed	Second round	10	20.29	24.79	Austria	22.86	20.29	30.72	24.20	27.31
	First round	13	26.34	27.70	Austria	26.37	26.45	30.28	26.34	31.35
Clock	First round	15	14.17	17.16	Austria	16.35	18.12	17.00	18.72	14.17
Megaminx	First round	12	1:26.06	1:30.23	Austria	1:26.35	1:33.34	1:31.00	1:33.61	1:26.06
Square-1	First round	13	36.04		Austria	45.62	36.04

Antto Pitkänen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	3	59.92	1:07.73	Finland	1:14.18	59.92	1:05.39	1:13.23	1:04.57
	Second round	3	1:03.93	1:07.45	Finland	1:08.53	1:14.27	1:09.21	1:04.60	1:03.93
	First round	3	1:05.66	1:09.47	Finland	1:08.74	1:05.66	1:19.48	1:07.53	1:12.13
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	2:16.55	2:22.86	Finland	2:16.55	2:25.18	2:26.85
	First round	3	2:02.90	2:17.38	Finland	2:23.72	2:25.52	2:02.90
7x7x7 Cube	Final	5	3:39.49	3:46.25	Finland	3:48.41	3:39.49	3:50.86
	First round	3	3:22.69	3:29.13	Finland	3:38.50	3:26.21	3:22.69
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	3	12.46	16.34	Finland	12.46	24.96	17.02	15.21	16.79
	Second round	1	13.06	15.78	Finland	16.55	14.82	13.06	15.97	17.15
	First round	2	12.89	15.08	Finland	15.88	12.89	16.05	15.45	13.90
Clock	Final	2	4.18	4.97	Finland	4.18	4.96	5.29	5.04	4.92
	Second round	2	3.78	5.23	Finland	6.00	4.84	4.84	3.78	DNF
	First round	3	3.73	6.39	Finland	3.73	4.66	5.41	9.10	9.10
Megaminx	Final	3	48.56	53.23	Finland	55.67	54.06	59.01	48.56	49.95
	First round	4	54.59	59.46	Finland	1:06.58	59.56	55.52	54.59	1:03.31
Square-1	Final	4	11.40	14.68	Finland	11.40	15.87	17.01	16.27	11.89
	First round	5	10.36	14.19	Finland	18.61	10.36	15.44	13.92	13.21

Atilla Kopecky - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	10	1:21.74	1:24.34	Finland	1:27.40	1:21.74	1:22.41	1:27.04	1:23.56
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	11	22.20	25.58	Finland	27.54	25.83	29.70	22.20	23.38
Clock	First round	5	4.88	6.75	Finland	4.88	6.58	8.06	5.60	DNF
Megaminx	Final	9	1:18.61	1:22.99	Finland	1:24.85	1:20.94	1:23.17	1:18.61	1:36.98
	First round	10	1:14.61	1:25.99	Finland	1:24.80	1:31.39	1:14.61	1:30.93	1:22.25

Eetu Lae - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Second round	11	2:02.38		Finland	2:02.38	2:12.98
	First round	13	2:21.01		Finland	2:24.75	2:21.01
6x6x6 Cube	First round	9	4:25.62		Finland	4:25.62
7x7x7 Cube	First round	9	8:39.46		Finland	8:39.46
3x3x3 One-Handed	Second round	11	20.34	28.20	Finland	29.33	20.34	26.46	29.94	28.82
	First round	8	13.99	21.91	Finland	20.26	33.19	13.99	23.13	22.35
Clock	Final	6	7.98	9.04	Finland	8.41	8.57	7.98	12.07	10.15
	Second round	8	7.17	9.37	Finland	9.12	9.26	10.23	7.17	9.72
	First round	10	7.79	8.94	Finland	9.41	7.79	9.54	17.33	7.88
Megaminx	Final	11	1:24.76	1:30.24	Finland	1:24.76	1:26.91	1:34.96	1:28.85	1:35.97
	First round	11	1:19.26	1:27.14	Finland	1:21.54	1:32.66	1:34.71	1:27.22	1:19.26
Square-1	Final	8	15.25	28.01	Finland	24.96	29.08	15.25	34.20	29.99
	First round	9	17.88	25.07	Finland	32.11	20.67	23.51	31.03	17.88

Lauri Korhonen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	1	43.84		48.55	Finland	49.68	44.92	43.84	51.81	51.05
	Second round	1	43.22		45.79	Finland	43.22	52.68	44.42	46.53	46.42
	First round	1	44.90		47.23	Finland	50.89	45.76	44.90	46.56	49.38
6x6x6 Cube	First round	11	DNF			Finland	DNF
7x7x7 Cube	Final	1	2:04.22	NR	2:19.70	Finland	2:25.04	2:04.22	2:29.84
	First round	1	2:24.77		2:25.86	Finland	2:25.00	2:24.77	2:27.82
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	2	14.61		15.92	Finland	15.01	17.78	14.61	14.97	21.42
	Second round	2	13.24		16.59	Finland	17.62	16.38	17.45	13.24	15.93
	First round	4	15.90		17.87	Finland	16.39	20.18	19.86	17.37	15.90
Clock	Final	7	8.58		9.32	Finland	9.45	9.71	11.20	8.58	8.81
	Second round	7	7.69		8.14	Finland	7.90	10.59	8.70	7.81	7.69
	First round	11	8.29		9.23	Finland	8.29	9.09	9.70	8.89	9.99
Megaminx	Final	2	46.36		52.07	Finland	1:00.35	51.52	56.58	46.36	48.12
	First round	3	47.11		53.28	Finland	49.26	51.15	59.42	47.11	1:00.64
Square-1	Final	6	12.68		21.86	Finland	21.51	30.77	12.68	25.46	18.60
	First round	6	13.87		18.93	Finland	23.10	27.84	16.59	17.10	13.87

Leevi Sadeharju - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	12	2:03.56		Finland	2:03.56	2:10.70
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	10	14.61	23.64	Finland	28.80	24.30	29.89	17.82	14.61
Clock	First round	8	7.97	8.47	Finland	8.75	8.58	7.97	8.84	8.09
Megaminx	First round	14	2:24.05		Finland	2:50.37	2:24.05
Square-1	First round	12	35.22		Finland	47.50	35.22

Leo Alanen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	7	1:08.53	1:18.49	Finland	1:22.09	1:17.28	1:16.11	1:08.53	1:27.31
	Second round	8	1:12.13	1:18.04	Finland	1:23.29	1:15.80	1:12.13	1:18.88	1:19.44
	First round	6	1:12.24	1:18.24	Finland	1:15.77	1:14.87	1:24.09	1:34.18	1:12.24
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	2:14.03	2:21.77	Finland	2:14.03	2:28.45	2:22.84
	First round	5	2:16.28	2:25.87	Finland	2:25.89	2:16.28	2:35.45
7x7x7 Cube	Final	6	3:32.09	3:51.34	Finland	3:43.73	4:18.21	3:32.09
	First round	6	3:34.80	3:48.35	Finland	4:08.02	3:34.80	3:42.23
3x3x3 One-Handed	Second round	9	14.67	21.93	Finland	28.78	14.67	25.89	21.12	18.78
	First round	12	16.09	26.84	Finland	16.09	30.17	32.39	38.96	17.96
Clock	Final	4	4.29	5.97	Finland	4.52	DNF	7.35	6.03	4.29
	Second round	5	4.03	6.27	Finland	6.35	DNF	6.33	4.03	6.14
	First round	7	5.33	7.74	Finland	8.47	8.71	DNF	5.33	6.04
Megaminx	Final	5	59.53	1:02.20	Finland	1:07.01	1:03.39	1:02.44	1:00.76	59.53
	First round	6	58.36	1:04.83	Finland	1:04.27	1:07.42	1:11.57	58.36	1:02.80
Square-1	Final	5	9.63	15.93	Finland	9.68	9.63	20.87	20.57	17.55
	First round	4	11.87	13.39	Finland	14.28	16.12	13.19	12.69	11.87

Louis Boudreault - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	16	3:57.18	Finland	DNF	3:57.18
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	17	55.59	Finland	1:11.46	55.59
Megaminx	First round	15	3:59.06	Finland	DNF	3:59.06

Luukas Lempinen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	2	58.40	1:01.66	Finland	1:09.72	59.16	58.40	1:04.51	1:01.30
	Second round	2	55.32	58.54	Finland	1:01.42	56.43	55.32	1:11.23	57.77
	First round	2	52.91	1:00.57	Finland	1:06.29	52.91	1:25.70	58.10	57.32
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	1:54.07	1:58.23	Finland	2:05.01	1:55.61	1:54.07
	First round	1	1:46.95	1:54.20	Finland	1:46.95	1:51.08	2:04.58
7x7x7 Cube	Final	2	2:46.57	2:54.13	Finland	2:56.19	2:59.62	2:46.57
	First round	4	3:15.68	3:29.60	Finland	3:54.65	3:15.68	3:18.48
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	1	13.50	15.81	Finland	14.54	18.25	15.74	13.50	17.14
	Second round	5	16.04	18.01	Finland	19.16	18.82	16.04	16.05	19.58
	First round	1	11.13	14.89	Finland	16.55	20.29	13.67	14.44	11.13
Clock	Final	3	4.03	5.27	Finland	4.03	6.59	4.60	4.62	DNF
	Second round	4	4.13	5.41	Finland	6.16	4.50	4.13	7.62	5.57
	First round	2	5.10	5.65	Finland	5.10	5.96	5.79	5.21	DNF
Megaminx	Final	4	49.04	55.14	Finland	53.22	59.38	54.23	57.96	49.04
	First round	2	49.14	52.38	Finland	51.48	51.87	53.78	56.29	49.14
Square-1	Final	2	7.42	9.75	Finland	9.68	12.16	7.42	11.81	7.75
	First round	2	5.83	8.92	Finland	5.83	6.51	10.66	DNF	9.58

Maksym Oliynyk - Ukraine WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	8	1:10.31	1:20.87	Ukraine	1:13.97	1:21.14	1:10.31	1:27.50	1:28.12
	Second round	4	1:06.17	1:13.39	Ukraine	1:18.37	1:18.27	1:14.52	1:06.17	1:07.37
	First round	7	1:15.88	1:19.09	Ukraine	1:21.32	1:15.88	1:19.64	1:29.60	1:16.30
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	2:11.04	2:13.42	Ukraine	2:14.70	2:11.04	2:14.51
	First round	6	2:13.78	2:26.81	Ukraine	2:33.39	2:33.27	2:13.78
7x7x7 Cube	First round	10	DNF		Ukraine	DNF
3x3x3 One-Handed	Second round	3	14.40	17.62	Ukraine	16.83	20.64	14.40	20.97	15.40
	First round	6	17.13	20.31	Ukraine	19.87	24.38	19.81	17.13	21.26
Clock	Second round	11	10.28	12.60	Ukraine	DNF	12.36	11.33	10.28	14.11
	First round	13	11.41	12.48	Ukraine	14.08	13.47	12.08	11.88	11.41
Megaminx	Final	1	48.85	51.02	Ukraine	1:00.87	51.98	51.18	48.85	49.89
	First round	1	42.88	51.25	Ukraine	1:04.54	54.69	51.76	42.88	47.30
Square-1	Final	7	15.47	24.54	Ukraine	28.25	22.55	27.29	23.77	15.47
	First round	10	18.70	25.42	Ukraine	25.90	24.18	26.19	40.64	18.70

Mirko Laur - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	14	2:35.16		Finland	3:35.27	2:35.16
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	15	44.19		Finland	44.19	44.77
Clock	First round	16	13.53	20.06	Finland	13.89	DNF	31.08	13.53	15.20
Megaminx	First round	13	2:23.65		Finland	2:26.24	2:23.65
Square-1	First round	14	37.83		Finland	37.83	43.96

Niilo Eskelinen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Second round	9	1:15.50	1:21.98	Finland	1:22.70	1:20.42	1:15.50	1:27.92	1:22.81
	First round	9	1:14.98	1:23.61	Finland	1:18.78	1:35.22	1:14.98	1:16.84	1:44.88
6x6x6 Cube	Final	8	2:39.90	2:55.05	Finland	3:13.44	2:39.90	2:51.82
	First round	8	2:41.23	DNF	Finland	2:41.23	DNF	2:48.34
7x7x7 Cube	First round	8	4:29.14		Finland	4:29.14
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	6	18.49	20.12	Finland	18.86	21.25	20.24	23.59	18.49
	Second round	8	17.47	19.75	Finland	22.44	17.62	17.47	19.20	24.92
	First round	5	17.48	18.68	Finland	27.39	17.48	18.28	18.77	19.00
Clock	Final	5	4.75	6.58	Finland	5.78	DNF	5.92	4.75	8.05
	Second round	3	4.77	5.33	Finland	5.53	DNF	5.40	5.06	4.77
	First round	6	5.09	7.32	Finland	6.19	8.09	DNF	7.68	5.09
Megaminx	Final	7	59.70	1:07.62	Finland	1:03.52	1:18.34	1:06.10	1:13.24	59.70
	First round	7	1:11.52	1:14.22	Finland	1:11.52	1:12.75	1:14.08	1:15.82	1:18.22
Square-1	Final	1	6.94	7.59	Finland	7.87	7.08	7.83	10.01	6.94
	First round	1	7.47	8.48	Finland	7.47	9.42	8.36	15.36	7.65

Niko Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	Final	5	1:09.62	1:12.69	Finland	1:11.56	1:11.67	1:09.62	1:14.83	1:17.88
	Second round	5	1:03.17	1:15.20	Finland	1:10.83	1:03.17	1:20.84	1:13.92	1:31.46
	First round	4	1:06.86	1:13.36	Finland	1:11.31	1:27.93	1:12.93	1:15.83	1:06.86
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	2:13.94	2:23.08	Finland	2:15.19	2:13.94	2:40.12
	First round	4	2:19.31	2:24.84	Finland	2:30.92	2:19.31	2:24.29
7x7x7 Cube	Final	4	3:35.73	3:45.59	Finland	4:02.21	3:35.73	3:38.83
	First round	5	3:39.01	3:47.54	Finland	3:39.90	3:39.01	4:03.70
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	4	16.09	18.30	Finland	19.17	18.90	16.82	19.98	16.09
	Second round	4	15.54	17.95	Finland	16.24	20.55	18.88	15.54	18.72
	First round	3	16.89	17.43	Finland	17.43	17.53	18.77	16.89	17.32
Clock	Final	8	5.39	DNF	Finland	10.38	9.12	DNF	DNF	5.39
	Second round	6	6.09	6.84	Finland	6.91	6.41	6.09	8.69	7.19
	First round	4	5.05	6.50	Finland	8.06	5.66	6.34	7.51	5.05
Megaminx	Final	10	1:08.98	1:25.30	Finland	1:08.98	1:28.79	1:25.56	1:26.96	1:23.39
	First round	9	1:14.67	1:24.97	Finland	1:28.91	1:29.91	1:29.66	1:14.67	1:16.33
Square-1	First round	11	17.11	25.92	Finland	24.79	34.32	21.00	31.96	17.11

Noel Salmela - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Representing	Solves
5x5x5 Cube	First round	15	2:49.85	Finland	2:49.85	3:08.37
6x6x6 Cube	First round	10	5:29.93	Finland	5:29.93
3x3x3 One-Handed	First round	16	47.68	Finland	47.68	49.38

Tomi Ronkainen - Finland WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
Clock	First round	14	10.93		14.04		Finland	15.17	14.92	14.09	13.11	10.93