People · China
Hanlin Ding (丁瀚林)
Clock · top 5.9% of 32,048 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015DING07
Hanlin Ding (丁瀚林) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.58, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 117th in China. Until December 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since August 2015, he has put 209 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His Clock best has come down from 12.79 in August 2015 to 5.58, a 56% improvement. Hanlin has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 5.58 | 6.97 | top 5.9% | 117 / 1,843 | |
| 3×3 | 12.01 | 13.20 | top 13.9% | 5,504 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 4.43 | 5.55 | top 32.0% | 5,486 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 1:11.44 | — | early days — 1 solve | 4,415 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 35.06 | 55.98 | top 57.4% | 4,736 / 5,922 | |
| Pyraminx | 11.96 | 13.83 | top 66.9% | 6,773 / 10,224 | |
| Square-1 | 57.10 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,258 / 1,362 |
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, Clock. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 2 Oct 2015First sub-15 3×3: 12.28 at China Championship 2015.
- 2 Oct 2015Three personal bests in one day at China Championship 2015.
- 30 Aug 2015First competition: Shanghai Summer Open 2015. A 17.19 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Wuxi Open 2019 · 10 Aug 2019
- Yancheng Spring 2019 · 6 Apr 2019
- Nanjing Spring 2018 · 30 Apr 2018
- Nanjing Spring 2017 · 30 Apr 2017
- Shanghai Spring 2017 · 18 Mar 2017
- Anhui University Smart Open 2017 · 11 Mar 2017
- Nanjing Autumn 2016 · 16 Oct 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Asian Championship 2016 · 1 Oct 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Hefei Open 2016 · 15 Jul 2016
- Suzhou Open 2016 · 2 Jul 2016
- Nanjing Spring 2016 · 30 Apr 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Shanghai Spring 2016 · 19 Mar 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanjing Autumn 2015 · 24 Oct 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- China Championship 2015 · 2 Oct 2015 — 3 personal bests set
- Shanghai Summer Open 2015 · 30 Aug 2015 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Yinghao Wang (王鹰豪) — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Zijia Feng (冯子甲) — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Jiayu Wang (王佳宇) — met in 26 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.