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Hong Xiang Loke

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017LOKE01

Hong Xiang Loke has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.88, set at Malaysia Cube Championship 2018, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 230th in Malaysia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since April 2017, he has put 173 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.90 in April 2017 to 8.88, a 36% improvement. Hong has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.88
signature single · Malaysia Cube Championship 2018
173
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×38.8810.85
top 4.6%230 / 3,773
4×436.6242.45
top 8.3%140 / 1,219
2×22.524.23
top 9.1%231 / 2,541
5×51:08.121:12.60
top 10.3%79 / 617
Megaminx1:04.561:08.43
top 12.4%102 / 518
3×3 one-handed17.3421.30
top 13.4%194 / 1,327
6×62:08.532:27.53
top 14.7%50 / 232
7×73:15.953:26.12
top 15.0%41 / 188
Skewb6.358.60
top 28.5%355 / 1,053
Pyraminx7.3213.08
top 30.5%614 / 1,723

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

USM Penang Cube 2017: 13.90Malaysia Cube Open 2017: 12.90Malaysia Cube Championship 2018: 8.88USM Penang Cube 2019: 8.888.8813.9015 Apr 201723 Mar 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.