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Fangxing Duan (段方星)

3×3 · top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017DUAN05

Fangxing Duan (段方星) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.81, set at Linfen Open 2019, puts him in the top 13.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,224th in China. Across 10 competitions since May 2017, he has put 172 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.43 in May 2017 to 11.81, a 28% improvement. Fangxing has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.2% of 284,439 all-time
11.81
signature single · Linfen Open 2019
172
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.8114.81
top 13.2%5,224 / 28,153
Skewb5.778.58
top 24.0%1,484 / 5,004
2×24.507.34
top 32.9%5,640 / 15,796
Pyraminx9.2212.14
top 46.7%4,948 / 10,224

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

Tangshan Open 2017: 16.43Beijing Open 2017: 16.70China Championship 2017: 17.56Shijiazhuang Open 2017: 15.48Inner Mongolia Winter 2018: 15.28Linfen Open 2018: 13.71Shijiazhuang Winter 2018: 15.19Taiyuan Winter 2018: 13.19Beijing Summer 2019: 14.25Linfen Open 2019: 11.8111.8117.5628 May 20177 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 1.81 away.
  • A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.