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Alan Tan

2×2 · top 0.094% of 189,179 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023FANG02

Alan Tan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.67, set at Crewe Spring 2025, puts him in the top 0.094% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in the United Kingdom. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since January 2023, he has put 2,182 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.34 in January 2023 to 5.12, a 55% improvement. Alan has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.094% of 189,179 all-time
0.67
signature single · Crewe Spring 2025
2,182
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
2×20.671.31
top 0.094%8 / 4,946
3×35.126.37
top 0.14%14 / 6,785
4×423.1927.02
top 0.36%11 / 2,112
3×3 one-handed8.9211.02
top 0.49%13 / 1,861
Pyraminx1.664.60
top 0.62%31 / 3,704
5×544.5752.17
top 0.63%11 / 1,167
Clock4.104.73
top 2.5%40 / 1,255
Skewb2.534.16
top 3.0%69 / 2,439
6×61:50.822:01.80
top 7.6%51 / 560
Megaminx59.011:06.30
top 9.5%124 / 998
7×73:32.943:43.46
top 20.8%102 / 463
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
top 23.5%108 / 372
Square-120.0824.89
top 28.2%269 / 789
3×3 blindfolded2:35.11—
top 45.0%182 / 315

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

Stevenage January 2023: 11.34Reading Spring 2023: 9.66Stevenage May 2023: 9.13Stevenage July 2023: 7.85Harrow Autumn 2023: 8.56Stevenage September 2023: 8.78Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.81Stevenage November 2023: 8.24Stevenage January 2024: 7.67Glasgow Spring 2024: 6.83Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 7.86Stevenage April 2024: 6.65Crewe Spring 2024: 6.43Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 7.27Stevenage June 2024: 6.21Stevenage July 2024: 6.54Stevenage August 2024: 6.97Kewbz UK Open 2024: 6.62Battersea Autumn 2024: 7.07Stevenage October 2024: 5.75Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 6.48Stevenage December 2024: 7.12Stevenage March 2025: 5.68Crewe Spring 2025: 5.83Coventry Spring 2025: 5.12Stevenage June 2025: 6.17Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.22Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 5.93Stevenage October 2025: 5.52Stevenage January 2026: 5.31Stevenage March 2026: 5.75Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 5.46Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.005.1211.3421 Jan 202328 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 3.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.