People · Chinese Taipei
Alan Kuo (郭建廷)
3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016KUOA01
Alan Kuo (郭建廷) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.96, set at UCSB Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19th in Chinese Taipei. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since July 2016, he has put 486 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.01 in July 2016 to 5.96, a 67% improvement. Alan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chinese Taipei | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.96 | 7.53 | top 0.46% | 19 / 4,213 | |
| 2×2 | 1.23 | 2.35 | top 1.1% | 26 / 1,669 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.68 | 16.47 | top 7.4% | 99 / 802 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.79 | 8.76 | top 26.1% | 374 / 1,016 |
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
- 18 Dec 2020First sub-10 3×3: 9.92 at Taiwan Championship 2020.
- 6 Jul 2019First sub-15 3×3: 13.10 at Maru Cube Day 2019.
- 26 May 2019Three personal bests in one day at Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019.
- 9 Jul 2016First competition: Maru Cube Day 2016. A 18.01 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026
- West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025 · 22 Jun 2025
- UCLA Spring 2025 · 20 Apr 2025
- Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024 · 2 Nov 2024
- UCSB Cubing 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Hsinchu Summer Open 2024 · 17 Aug 2024
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2024 · 25 May 2024
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 59 LIVE - SSF 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- USC Cubing 2024 · 3 Feb 2024
- Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023 · 18 Jun 2023
- Taichung Open 2023 · 11 Feb 2023
- Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022 · 5 Nov 2022
- Chiayi Open 2022 · 23 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CK Cubing Party 2022 · 29 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Open 2022 · 14 Jan 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Championship 2020 · 18 Dec 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Taiwan Championship 2019 · 13 Dec 2019
- Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2019 · 16 Nov 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Maru Cube Day 2019 · 6 Jul 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019 · 26 May 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Maru Cube Day 2016 · 9 Jul 2016 — 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.
- Chao-Che Chung (鍾肇哲) — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
- Ping-Yueh Huang (黃品越) — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- He-Ping Zheng (鄭和平) — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
Targets move as he improves.