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Alex Chen

3×3 one-handed · top 2.1% of 74,621 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013CHEN84

Alex Chen has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.19, set at POPS Open 2016, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Australia. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2013, he has put 897 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 92% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.03 in November 2013 to 9.02, a 40% improvement. Alex has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.1% of 74,621 all-time
11.19
signature single · POPS Open 2016
897
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×3 one-handed11.1915.61
top 2.1%54 / 2,685
3×39.0210.18
top 4.9%459 / 11,943
Skewb3.515.80
top 7.9%219 / 3,589
2×22.443.56
top 8.4%639 / 8,727
4×437.2740.47
top 9.1%238 / 3,108
5×51:18.021:29.09
top 17.7%242 / 1,412
Pyraminx6.347.08
top 22.6%1,138 / 6,109
Megaminx1:37.471:44.62
top 33.1%414 / 1,313
6×63:18.163:38.41
top 49.7%309 / 667
7×75:35.97—
early days — 2 solves300 / 540
Square-153.61—
early days — 1 solve767 / 920

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

Melbourne Spring 2013: 15.03Melbourne Cube Day 2013: 13.78Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2014: 14.06Melbourne Summer 2014: 13.09Melbourne Winter 2014: 10.63Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2014: 9.50Melbourne Cube Day 2014: 10.50Niddrie 2014: 10.94Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2015: 9.30Melbourne Autumn 2015: 9.56Cube for Cambodia 2015: 9.75Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2015: 9.44Melbourne Cube Days 2015: 9.02Connor's Cube Day 2016: 10.01Cube for Cambodia 2016: 9.49Australian Nationals 2016: 9.25POPS Open 2016: 9.26Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2017: 9.589.0215.039 Nov 201318 Feb 2017

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.