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Grant Lian

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013LIAN12

Grant Lian has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.41, set at Cool Down Sydney 2019, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 539th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since September 2013, he has put 487 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.40 in September 2013 to 9.41, a 58% improvement. Grant has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.41
signature single · Cool Down Sydney 2019
487
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.4112.07
top 5.9%539 / 11,709
2×22.724.63
top 11.1%834 / 8,567
3×3 blindfolded1:19.33—
top 19.4%101 / 394
3×3 one-handed20.8425.09
top 22.8%515 / 2,659
Skewb8.3112.29
top 43.6%1,346 / 3,534
4×41:10.891:22.43
top 47.7%1,281 / 3,051
Pyraminx10.6323.22
top 57.8%3,391 / 5,993
5×52:14.392:36.58
top 57.8%799 / 1,356
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 7 cubes · 53:59—
early days — 2 solves107 / 180
7×78:37.20—
early days — 1 solve464 / 523
Square-11:19.02—
early days — 1 solve847 / 899

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

Australian Nationals 2013: 22.40Australian Nationals 2014: 16.80Sydney Spring 2014: 14.34Sydney Autumn 2015: 14.65Newcastle Winter 2015: 13.83Sydney Winter 2015: 11.16Sydney Summer 2015: 12.52Sydney Autumn 2016: 12.24Australian Nationals 2016: 12.15Sydney Championship 2016: 14.13Australian Nationals 2018: 12.90Odd Day in Sydney 2018: 10.91Cool Down Sydney 2019: 9.41Koalafication Sydney 2019: 11.03Warm Up Sydney 2019: 11.18WCA World Championship 2019: 11.78Fortitude Sydney 2019: 11.87Odd Day in Sydney 2019: 14.01Sydney Open 2019: 11.11Marrickville Autumn Sunday 2021: 10.759.4122.407 Sep 201323 May 2021

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.

  • William Tao — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Caleb Clark — met in 100 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
  • Edbert Sim — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 44 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.41 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.