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Alana Chan

3×3 · top 1.6% of 284,439 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 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 159th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since January 2019, she has put 272 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 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 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 284,439 all-time
7.20
signature single · Richmond Fall 2025
272
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×37.208.57
top 1.6%159 / 10,392
2×22.327.62
top 7.2%466 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed15.3317.46
top 8.8%196 / 2,620
4×440.2543.76
top 12.4%309 / 3,118

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

UBC Open 2019: 11.21Richmond Open Summer B 2022: 8.55BC Spring Solving B 2023: 8.39Richmond Summer Open 2023: 8.96Vancouver Fall Fest 2023: 8.51Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024: 9.07Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 7.95Bristol Winter Open 2024: 8.41PR Time in Burnaby 2025: 8.34Vancouver Newcomers 2025: 7.49Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 7.99Burnaby Summer 2025: 7.83Richmond Fall 2025: 7.20Vancouver Mini Afternoon 2026: 7.91Richmond Spring 2026: 7.72Burnaby Cubes Big & Small 2026: 8.297.2011.215 Jan 20197 Jun 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.20 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.32 away.

Targets move as she improves.