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Bowen Niu (钮博文)

3×3 · top 34.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017NIUB02

Bowen Niu (钮博文) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.16, set at Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024, puts him in the top 34.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12,357th in China. Across 2 competitions since October 2017, he has put 40 official solves on the record across five events. Bowen has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 34.6% of 284,439 all-time
18.16
signature single · Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×318.1620.03
top 34.6%12,357 / 28,153
2×25.028.33
top 39.6%6,829 / 15,796
Pyraminx11.0216.98
top 60.7%6,233 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed42.29
early days — 1 solve5,261 / 5,922
Skewb13.4218.08
top 72.5%3,791 / 5,004

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

Yunnan Open 2017: 19.86Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 18.1618.1619.867 Oct 201722 Jun 2024

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 7 Oct 2017First competition: Yunnan Open 2017. A 19.86 3×3 single to start from.

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.16 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.