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Hao-Zheng Lin (林浩正)

2×2 · top 0.92% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2008 · 2008LINH01

Hao-Zheng Lin (林浩正) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.16, set at Asian Championship 2014, puts him in the top 0.92% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since July 2008, he has put 1,731 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.72 in August 2008 to 7.29, a 50% improvement. He has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.92% of 186,767 all-time
1.16
signature single · Asian Championship 2014
1,731
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
2×21.162.90
top 0.92%20 / 1,669
3×37.299.32
top 1.7%98 / 4,213
4×429.0532.22
top 2.3%64 / 1,078
3×3 one-handed12.5115.22
top 3.7%46 / 802
5×559.941:05.73
top 5.5%90 / 639
Pyraminx4.697.03
top 11.3%178 / 1,016
6×62:21.812:41.59
top 21.4%116 / 292
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves37.00
top 23.4%52 / 204
7×74:20.434:36.37
early days — 3 solves150 / 252

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

South Taiwan Summer Open 2008: 14.72Taiwan Winter Open 2009: 12.00Taiwan Spring Open 2009: 11.61Maru Cube Day 2009: 11.34Taiwan Winter Open 2010: 11.77Taiwan Summer Open 2010: 11.09Taiwan Spring Open 2011: 10.33Cubik Box Cup 2011: 8.88Taiwan Summer 2011: 10.18Taipei Open 2011: 9.22World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 8.55Taiwan Winter 2012: 10.08Taiwan Summer Open 2012: 9.39Asian Championship 2012: 8.64Magic Revenge 2012: 9.65Taiwan Winter Open 2013: 9.91MARU Cube for kid Day 2013: 10.33Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 8.65Kaohsiung Open 2013: 9.77Hsinchu Winter Open 2013: 8.94Kaohsiung Winter Open 2014: 9.72Maru Cube for Kids Day 2014: 9.15Mingdao Cube Carnival 2014: 9.21Taiwan Summer Open 2014: 9.53Asian Championship 2014: 8.66Hsinchu Winter Open 2014: 9.15Show Off Quickness 2015: 10.15Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 8.91Hsinchu Summer Open 2015: 10.08Magic Revenge 2015: 9.45Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 9.52Twisting Fingers in New Taipei City 2015: 9.28Taipei Open 2015: 8.75Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 8.58Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 7.29All is Well 2016: 8.487.2914.7224 Aug 200812 Mar 2016

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.