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Changbin Huang (黄昌斌)

3×3 · top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017HUAN25

Changbin Huang (黄昌斌) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.38, set at Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,235th in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2017, he has put 102 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.61 in May 2017 to 9.38, a 12% improvement. Changbin has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.38
signature single · Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023
102
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.3811.35
top 5.8%2,235 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed15.7119.69
top 9.6%924 / 5,922
Pyraminx5.007.16
top 13.2%1,562 / 10,224
4×444.4956.77
top 17.6%1,912 / 5,926
2×23.554.10
top 20.8%3,416 / 15,796
Skewb5.746.41
top 23.8%1,470 / 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

Nanning Open 2017: 10.61Nanning Open 2018: 10.55Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023: 9.389.3810.6114 May 201715 Oct 2023

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 1.38 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.