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Haiping Chen (陈海平)

3×3 · top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2008 · 2008CHEN11

Haiping Chen (陈海平) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.18, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2013, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,129th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since August 2008, he has put 360 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.83 in August 2008 to 10.18, a 43% improvement. Haiping has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.18
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2013
360
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.1812.57
top 8.0%3,129 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed20.3725.07
top 21.5%2,137 / 5,922

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

Shanghai Open 2008: 17.83Guangdong Open 2008: 16.22Xi'an Open 2009: 14.27Beijing Summer Open 2009: 14.61Guangdong Open 2009: 13.80Xi'an Spring 2010: 12.75Xi'an Autumn Open 2010: 13.16Xi'an Winter Open 2010: 11.21Xi'an Spring 2011: 11.90Xi'an Summer 2011: 13.91Floating Clouds Open 2011: 11.34Xi'an Lucky Open 2011: 11.55Xi'an Autumn Open 2011: 11.13Xi'an Qingming Open 2012: 10.36Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2012: 10.90Xi'an Newborn 2012: 11.91Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2013: 10.18Zhengzhou Spring Open 2013: 12.30Xi'an Summer 2013: 11.16Xi'an Winter 2013: 11.24Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2014: 11.88Xi'an Winter Open 2014: 11.38Xi'an More Coffee 2014: 10.7710.1817.8330 Aug 200821 Dec 2014

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 0.18 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.