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Chi-Fan Li (李啟帆)

3×3 · top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2007 · 2007LICH01

Chi-Fan Li (李啟帆) has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.08, set at Taiwan Spring Open 2009, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 454th in Chinese Taipei. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since September 2007, he has put 126 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.37 in September 2007 to 10.08, a 25% improvement. He has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.08
signature single · Taiwan Spring Open 2009
126
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.0813.04
top 7.7%454 / 4,213
4×451.0958.06
top 26.0%501 / 1,078
2×24.275.93
top 30.0%728 / 1,669
3×3 blindfolded1:53.19
top 31.0%44 / 147
5×51:46.931:56.33
top 40.5%399 / 639
3×3 one-handed35.5239.48
top 58.2%650 / 802
7×75:55.336:28.72
top 66.6%202 / 252
6×64:20.864:47.97
early days — 3 solves252 / 292
Pyraminx17.8125.96
top 89.5%941 / 1,016
Square-11:56.803:03.31
top 98.3%318 / 323

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

Taiwanese Championship 2007: 13.37South Taiwan Summer Open 2008: 13.34Taiwan Winter Open 2009: 12.15Taiwan Spring Open 2009: 10.08Taiwan Spring Open 2010: 11.5010.0813.3723 Sep 200711 Apr 2010

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 1.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.