People · United States
Alan Ke
3×3 · top 4.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022KEAL01
Alan Ke has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.81, set at Lynnwood Winter 2023, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,516th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since April 2022, he has put 381 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.46 in April 2022 to 8.81, a 39% improvement. Alan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.81 | 10.54 | top 4.5% | 2,516 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 2.85 | 4.08 | top 12.6% | 5,036 / 41,674 | |
| 4×4 | 42.47 | 44.31 | top 15.1% | 2,307 / 19,354 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.50 | 7.85 | top 16.5% | 4,451 / 29,168 | |
| Square-1 | 16.80 | 23.46 | top 20.6% | 1,394 / 6,846 | |
| Megaminx | 1:34.68 | 1:48.23 | top 31.2% | 2,248 / 8,026 | |
| Skewb | 6.95 | 8.76 | top 33.4% | 5,666 / 19,164 | |
| Clock | 12.00 | 17.11 | top 34.9% | 2,837 / 9,172 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 29.96 | 36.78 | top 46.6% | 6,427 / 15,900 | |
| 5×5 | 1:58.48 | 2:03.67 | top 48.5% | 4,111 / 9,537 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 Jan 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.81 at Lynnwood Winter 2023.
- 10 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at Big Cubes in Bothell 2022.
- 24 Sep 2022Three personal bests in one day at SnoCo NxN 2022.
- 6 Aug 2022Three personal bests in one day at SnoCo Favorites 2022.
- 23 Apr 2022First competition: Central Washington Spring 2022. A 15.21 3×3 single to start from.
- 23 Apr 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.46 at Central Washington Spring 2022.
Competitions
- Lakewood Fall 2024 · 16 Nov 2024
- SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023 · 10 Nov 2023
- Lucky Lynnwood 2023 · 30 Sep 2023
- Canadian Championship 2023 · 13 Jul 2023
- Kent Spring 2023 · 27 May 2023
- Washington Championship 2023 · 14 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Sleepless in Seattle 2023 · 18 Feb 2023
- Lynnwood Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Big Cubes in Bothell 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022 · 12 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- New Kent On The Block 2022 · 15 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- SnoCo NxN 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Favorites 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- School's Out PLU 2022 · 5 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Central Washington Spring 2022 · 23 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
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 his.
- Max Siauw — met in 73 rounds, never finished ahead
- Sameer Aggarwal — met in 70 rounds, never finished ahead
- Timothy Castle — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
Targets move as he improves.