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Derek Hsieh

3×3 · top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016HSIE02

Derek Hsieh has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.31, set at WCC Western Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.19% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in Chinese Taipei. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 70 competitions since April 2016, he has put 2,106 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.24 in April 2016 to 5.31, an 84% improvement. Derek has entered 70 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time
5.31
signature single · WCC Western Championship 2022
2,106
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×35.317.51
top 0.19%29 / 4,213
3×3 one-handed9.1110.73
top 0.56%5 / 802
2×21.091.71
top 0.75%34 / 1,669
4×431.7636.10
top 4.0%106 / 1,078
5×51:02.221:11.83
top 6.7%105 / 639
Skewb4.266.80
top 12.7%0 / 699
Megaminx1:25.181:32.54
top 25.0%0 / 362
Pyraminx7.109.47
top 28.7%0 / 1,016
7×76:46.69—
early days — 1 solve0 / 252

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

St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 34.24Poly Cubed 2016: 28.10TFTI San Diego 2016: 30.85Nisei Week 2016: 17.42Newport Fall 2016: 14.29Caltech Winter 2017: 11.12OCSEF Open 2017: 10.11Cerritos Open 2017: 12.75Maru Cube Day 2017: 10.67Nisei Week 2017: 10.43Santa Barbara Fall 2017: 8.89Newport Fall 2017: 11.73TF3I San Diego 2017: 10.47Berkeley Fall 2017: 9.76Poly Cubed 2017: 9.68Irvine Winter 2018: 8.60Cerritos Open 2018: 9.02Nipomo Spring 2018: 9.36Thanks for the InFive 2018: 8.73A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 8.08Maru X 2018: 8.08CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.83Nisei Week 2018: 9.84Anaheim Fall 2018: 7.77Poly Cubed 2018: 9.02Berkeley Fall 2018: 7.92CubeChella 2018: 7.85Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 8.73Mudd Winter 2019: 7.71UCSD Winter 2019: 7.96Santa Barbara Winter 2019: 8.72Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 8.11CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 7.94Nisei Week 2019: 8.73San Diego Summer 2019: 7.95Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 7.73Mudd Fall 2019: 7.31Grossmont Fall 2019: 6.63Bay Area Speedcubin' 22 2019: 8.34UCSD Winter 2020: 7.05West LA Winter 2020: 8.04Westview Winter B 2021: 7.04Anaheim Winter B 2022: 7.04SacCubing XI 2022: 7.31San Diego Spring 2022: 6.93Geffen Spring 2022: 6.99Circle City Summer 2022: 7.28Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 6.18Diamond Bar September 2022: 6.45WCC Western Championship 2022: 5.31Circle City Supercharged 2022: 7.31San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 7.24Chula Vista Winter 2023: 6.91Oak Valley Winter B 2023: 7.27Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 6.76Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 7.07Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 7.96Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 7.29UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 6.50Pride in Long Beach 2023: 6.36CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 6.99Rialto Cubing Summer 2023: 7.34Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 6.81UCSD Summer 2023: 6.25Corona Summer 2023: 6.67Bay Area Speedcubin' 53 - Berkeley 2023: 7.34Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 7.45Berkeley Winter 2024: 7.405.3134.2424 Apr 20164 Feb 2024

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.

  • Elijah Brown — met in 272 rounds, finished ahead 115 times
  • Max Park — met in 236 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Michael Young — met in 234 rounds, finished ahead 151 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.