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Changming Hong (洪常铭)

3×3 · top 45.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015HONG07

Changming Hong (洪常铭) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.98, set at China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017, puts him in the top 45.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15,314th in China. Across 4 competitions since May 2015, he has put 34 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 55.47 in May 2015 to 21.98, a 60% improvement. Changming has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 45.5% of 288,433 all-time
21.98
signature single · China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017
34
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×321.9830.50
top 45.5%15,314 / 28,499
2×27.048.22
top 60.8%10,320 / 15,939
Pyraminx14.8615.80
top 81.3%8,083 / 10,269
Skewb18.77—
early days — 2 solves4,380 / 5,030
3×3 Fewest Moves72 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,077 / 1,071

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

Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 55.47China Championship 2015: 30.84China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 21.9821.9855.472 May 20151 Oct 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-20 3×3 single — 115,495 people have one; it is 1.98 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 96,384 people have one; it is 1.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.