People · Chinese Taipei
Chen-Rui Shen (沈宸睿)
3×3 · top 1.4% of 282,693 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024SHEN05
Chen-Rui Shen (沈宸睿) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.07, set at Taipei Summer Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 282,693 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 74th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since March 2024, he has put 167 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,609 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.03 in March 2024 to 7.07, a 22% improvement. He has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chinese Taipei | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.07 | 9.20 | top 1.4% | 74 / 4,114 | |
| 2×2 | 1.83 | 3.97 | top 3.7% | 93 / 1,668 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.56 | 15.93 | top 5.3% | 65 / 801 | |
| Skewb | 3.30 | 7.98 | top 6.5% | 74 / 698 | |
| 4×4 | 36.42 | 40.16 | top 8.1% | 201 / 1,077 | |
| 5×5 | 1:14.84 | 1:22.22 | top 15.1% | 215 / 638 | |
| Pyraminx | 17.17 | 23.37 | top 88.1% | 936 / 1,015 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 17 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Hsinchu Summer Open 2024.
- 3 Mar 2024First competition: Taichung Open 2024. A 9.39 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Taipei Summer Open 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025 · 25 May 2025
- Hsinchu Summer Open 2024 · 17 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Taichung Open 2024 · 3 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Chao-Che Chung (鍾肇哲) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Cian-Jyun Yang (楊謙君) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Wei-Ming Zeng (曾唯銘) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,363 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,020 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
Targets move as he improves.