People · Canada
Alfred Ching
3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023CHIN32
Alfred Ching has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.43, set at Brampton Summer 2026, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 348th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since November 2023, he has put 146 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.89 in November 2023 to 8.43, a 35% improvement. Alfred has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% 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 | 8.43 | 9.89 | top 3.6% | 348 / 10,392 | |
| 2×2 | 1.89 | 3.89 | top 4.1% | 257 / 7,173 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.04 | 24.97 | top 20.6% | 441 / 2,620 | |
| 4×4 | 1:31.46 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,848 / 3,118 | |
| Skewb | 14.55 | 17.48 | top 76.8% | 2,259 / 2,907 |
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
- 6 Jul 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.40 at Appleby Summer 2024.
- 19 Nov 2023First competition: Scarborough Fall B 2023. A 14.63 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Brampton Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Greater Toronto 2025 · 9 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Pickering Mini Morning 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Appleby Summer 2024 · 6 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Thornhill Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Greater Toronto 2024 · 18 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Scarborough Fall B 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 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.
- Yiming Lu — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
- Dominic DiLuciano — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Aidan Xu — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
Targets move as he improves.