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Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼)

3×3 · top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021CHEN64

Gilbert Chen (陳牧灼) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.65, set at Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Chinese Taipei. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since December 2021, he has put 605 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.14 in December 2021 to 5.65, a 31% improvement. Gilbert has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time
5.65
signature single · Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024
605
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×35.656.49
top 0.31%13 / 4,213
4×424.4428.51
top 0.57%17 / 1,078
5×546.1349.68
top 0.87%18 / 639
2×22.103.37
top 5.4%146 / 1,669
6×61:57.902:04.61
top 10.2%57 / 292
3×3 one-handed16.9820.12
top 12.5%169 / 802
Square-133.57—
early days — 2 solves216 / 323

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

Welcome Back Taipei 2021: 8.14Taiwan Open 2022: 7.70CK Cubing Party 2022: 7.19Maru Cube Day 2022: 7.79Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 7.47Taiwan Championship 2022: 7.59Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 6.43Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.04Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 7.40Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 5.65Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 6.50Taipei Summer Open 2024: 6.41Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.27Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 6.51Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 6.48Taiwan Championship 2024: 6.88BQHS Spring Open 2025: 6.31Zhongshan Open 2025: 6.22Taipei Summer Open 2025: 6.49Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 6.21Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 5.93Taiwan Championship 2025: 6.175.658.1419 Dec 202119 Dec 2025

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.