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Canaan Wu

3×3 · top 28.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023WUCA03

Canaan Wu has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.35, set at Lyttelton Spring 2023, puts him in the top 28.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,696th in China. Across 4 competitions since May 2023, he has put 115 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.61 in May 2023 to 16.35, a 17% improvement. Canaan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 28.9% of 284,439 all-time
16.35
signature single · Lyttelton Spring 2023
115
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×316.3520.52
top 28.9%10,696 / 28,153
Pyraminx7.7611.66
top 34.2%3,754 / 10,224
2×24.725.83
top 35.8%6,164 / 15,796
Skewb9.9816.84
top 54.8%3,046 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed34.7344.48
top 56.8%4,703 / 5,922
5×53:35.19
early days — 2 solves2,743 / 2,816

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

Cashmere Open 2023: 19.61NZ South Island Championship 2023: 18.67Lyttelton Spring 2023: 16.35Lyttelton Summer 2024: 19.4616.3519.6127 May 202318 Feb 2024

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.35 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.