People · China
Guanting Qian (钱冠廷)
3×3 · top 5.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2023 · 2023QIAN01
Guanting Qian (钱冠廷) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.05, set at Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,938th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2023, he has put 73 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.65 in November 2023 to 9.05, a 28% improvement. Guanting has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 | 9.05 | 10.50 | top 5.0% | 1,938 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.41 | 7.22 | top 15.9% | 1,884 / 10,269 | |
| Skewb | 5.14 | 9.21 | top 19.3% | 1,210 / 5,030 | |
| 2×2 | 3.83 | 4.69 | top 24.4% | 4,131 / 15,939 |
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
- 28 Jul 2024Three personal bests in one day at Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024.
- 22 Jun 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.67 at Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024.
- 26 Nov 2023First competition: Shenzhen Youth Open 2023. A 12.65 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shenzhen Open 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
- Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024 · 28 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Open 2023 · 24 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Youth Open 2023 · 26 Nov 2023
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.
- Yiming Zhuang (庄轶茗) — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yang Pin Xiu (楊品修) — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Xiaoyi Lin (林小懿) — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
Targets move as he improves.