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Benjamin Yap Chun Yu

3×3 · top 23.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2009 · 2009YUBE01

Benjamin Yap Chun Yu has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.71, set at Malaysia Cube Open 2012, puts him in the top 23.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,219th in Malaysia. Across 8 competitions since November 2009, he has put 167 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.52 in November 2009 to 14.71, a 57% improvement. Benjamin has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.4% of 284,439 all-time
14.71
signature single · Malaysia Cube Open 2012
167
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×314.7116.54
top 23.4%1,219 / 3,773
2×24.888.84
top 37.8%1,184 / 2,541
4×41:22.341:45.23
top 57.8%853 / 1,219
3×3 one-handed35.8045.72
top 58.7%927 / 1,327
Pyraminx15.8123.00
top 84.6%1,543 / 1,723

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

Malaysian Open 2009: 34.52Malaysian Cube Open 2010: 21.68Cyber Open 2011: 19.00Cube Fever 2011: 15.88Cyber Open 2012: 14.91Malaysia Cube Open 2012: 14.71Johor Rubik's Cube Open 2012: 15.56Taylor's Cube Open 2013: 15.1614.7134.5228 Nov 200926 Jan 2013

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.71 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.