People · China
Futian Tan (谈符天)
3×3 · top 0.15% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016TANF01
Futian Tan (谈符天) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.15, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 63rd in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2016, he has put 446 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.34 in April 2016 to 5.15, a 75% improvement. Futian has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.15 | 8.00 | top 0.15% | 63 / 28,499 | |
| 4×4 | 27.70 | 34.11 | top 1.7% | 168 / 5,999 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.60 | 15.47 | top 5.5% | 521 / 5,994 | |
| 2×2 | 2.57 | 3.45 | top 9.7% | 1,476 / 15,939 | |
| 5×5 | 1:07.38 | 1:16.87 | top 10.0% | 499 / 2,857 | |
| Skewb | 4.16 | 5.44 | top 12.1% | 726 / 5,030 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.49 | 8.23 | top 32.0% | 3,550 / 10,269 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025.
- 10 Mar 2024Four personal bests in one day at Luoyang Spring 2024.
- 3 Mar 2019Three personal bests in one day at Xianyang Open 2019.
- 21 Jul 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.40 at Baoji Open 2018.
- 2 Apr 2017First sub-15 3×3: 13.87 at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017.
- 2 Apr 2017Four personal bests in one day at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017.
Competitions
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- Xi'an Autumn 2025 · 2 Nov 2025
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025 · 4 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Xi'an New Year 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Open 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2024 · 5 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Luoyang Spring 2024 · 10 Mar 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom PM 2021 · 11 Apr 2021
- Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021 · 3 Jan 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Baoji Open 2019 · 11 Aug 2019
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019 · 13 Apr 2019
- Xianyang Open 2019 · 3 Mar 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Xi'an Open 2018 · 27 Oct 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Baoji Open 2018 · 21 Jul 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018 · 6 Apr 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an New Year 2018 · 1 Jan 2018
- China Championship 2017 · 28 Jul 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017 · 2 Apr 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- XJTU Open 2016 · 27 Nov 2016
- Xi'an Summer 2016 · 8 May 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016 · 2 Apr 2016
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.
- Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳) — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead 38 times
- Mingsen Han (韩明森) — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 46 times
- Ziyu Wu (吴子钰) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
- A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.70 away.
Targets move as he improves.