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Chang Xie (谢畅)

3×3 · top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016XIEC02

Chang Xie (谢畅) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.84, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,728th in China. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since October 2016, he has put 69 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Chang has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.84
signature single · Asian Championship 2016
69
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.8412.79
top 7.0%2,728 / 28,153
4×444.1348.31
top 17.2%1,858 / 5,926
5×51:20.911:27.76
top 19.8%941 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed19.9623.82
top 20.4%2,027 / 5,922
2×24.135.81
top 28.1%4,778 / 15,796

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

Asian Championship 2016: 9.84Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 11.399.8411.391 Oct 201617 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 4.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.