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Henry Xu

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2011 · 2011XUHE01

Henry Xu has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.36, set at Big Cubes BC 2011, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 785th in Canada. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since March 2011, he has put 66 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Henry has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.36
signature single · Big Cubes BC 2011
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.3612.88
top 8.5%785 / 10,392
2×23.415.06
top 19.1%1,273 / 7,173
4×41:06.161:13.48
top 43.0%1,161 / 3,118
5×52:17.862:22.82
top 59.9%790 / 1,499

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

Big Cubes BC 2011: 10.36Vancouver Summer 2011: 12.1610.3612.1619 Mar 201127 Aug 2011

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 0.36 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.