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Dylan Yihan Dai

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018DAID01

Dylan Yihan Dai has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.32, set at Oakville Autumn Limited 2018, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 776th in Canada. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2018, he has put 148 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 8 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.07 in January 2018 to 10.32, a 46% improvement. Dylan has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.32
signature single · Oakville Autumn Limited 2018
148
official solves on the record
9%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.3213.71
top 8.4%776 / 10,392
2×23.145.02
top 15.9%1,066 / 7,173
Pyraminx5.4211.02
top 15.9%635 / 4,858
Skewb5.2210.74
top 19.9%455 / 2,907
4×41:11.201:41.66
top 48.1%1,308 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed32.2239.77
top 51.6%1,199 / 2,620
Megaminx2:28.962:46.06
top 60.6%723 / 1,375
5×52:59.22
top 77.8%1,073 / 1,499

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

Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 19.07Pickering Spring 2018: 19.72Oakville Limited Spring 2018: 14.31Battle of Waterloo 2018: 13.11Oakville Autumn Limited 2018: 10.32Ajax Winter 2019: 13.74Newmarket Open 2019: 11.91Canadian Championship 2019: 12.4310.3219.7227 Jan 201826 Jul 2019

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 0.32 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.