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Erik Cheng (鄭聿軒)

3×3 · top 4.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012CHEN23

Erik Cheng (鄭聿軒) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.86, set at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,581st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since August 2012, he has put 857 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.80 in August 2012 to 8.86, a 55% improvement. Erik has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 288,433 all-time
8.86
signature single · CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019
857
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8610.18
top 4.6%2,581 / 60,666
4×436.1641.86
top 7.9%1,216 / 19,354
2×22.564.27
top 9.6%3,822 / 41,674
5×51:08.871:16.85
top 10.9%860 / 9,537
3×3 one-handed18.5422.48
top 16.6%2,179 / 15,900
Pyraminx6.3810.74
top 22.9%6,284 / 29,168
Megaminx1:31.581:45.00
top 29.3%2,089 / 8,026
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 1 solve746 / 2,059
Clock13.9319.17
top 43.5%3,583 / 9,172
6×63:12.024:37.65
top 46.8%1,772 / 4,262
Square-133.7755.49
top 56.5%3,781 / 6,846
Skewb13.0915.58
top 71.1%13,565 / 19,164
7×77:14.96—
top 82.5%2,654 / 3,236

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

United States National Championships 2012: 19.80Cubetcha 2012: 18.30Cubetcha 2013: 11.94Mingdao Cube Carnival 2014: 11.25BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 12.04Berkeley Fall 2014: 9.33Berkeley Winter 2015: 10.61BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 12.50Berkeley Spring 2015: 9.58BASC 6 2015: 11.62BASC 7 2015: 10.66Berkeley Summer 2015: 11.09Berkeley Fall 2015: 11.19Berkeley Winter 2016: 13.58Berkeley Spring 2016: 10.26Berkeley Summer 2016: 10.39Berkeley Fall 2016: 9.78Berkeley Winter 2017: 10.48Berkeley Spring 2017: 10.646.25 Bay Area 2017: 10.89SacCubing II 2017: 10.29Berkeley Summer 2017: 9.16Berkeley Fall 2017: 9.90Berkeley Winter 2018: 9.53Katy Cubing 2019: 9.55CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 8.868.8619.803 Aug 20121 Jun 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.

  • Ryan Jew — met in 133 rounds, finished ahead 42 times
  • Paul Mahvi — met in 118 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
  • Riley Woo — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 6.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.