People · Canada
Alana Chan
3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019CHAN01
Alana Chan has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.20, set at Richmond Fall 2025, puts her in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 161st in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since January 2019, she has put 276 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 11.21 in January 2019 to 7.20, a 36% improvement. Alana has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.20 | 8.57 | top 1.6% | 161 / 10,502 | |
| 2×2 | 2.32 | 7.62 | top 7.3% | 475 / 7,245 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.33 | 17.46 | top 8.9% | 197 / 2,632 | |
| 4×4 | 40.25 | 43.76 | top 12.5% | 318 / 3,180 |
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 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.55 at Richmond Open Summer B 2022.
- 5 Jan 2019First competition: UBC Open 2019. A 11.21 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Head to UBC Morning 2026 · 3 Oct 2026
- Burnaby Cubes Big & Small 2026 · 7 Jun 2026
- Richmond Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Vancouver Mini Afternoon 2026 · 15 Mar 2026
- Richmond Fall 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Burnaby Summer 2025 · 17 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Vancouver 2025 · 14 Jun 2025
- Vancouver Newcomers 2025 · 31 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- PR Time in Burnaby 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bristol Winter Open 2024 · 14 Dec 2024
- Vancouver's on Tracks 2024 · 8 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- Vancouver Fall Fest 2023 · 14 Oct 2023
- Richmond Summer Open 2023 · 5 Aug 2023
- BC Spring Solving B 2023 · 22 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Richmond Open Summer B 2022 · 7 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- UBC Open 2019 · 5 Jan 2019
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 her.
- Isaac Davies — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Kenny Zhong — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Kevin Matthews — met in 40 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.20 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
Targets move as she improves.