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Hongfei Chen (陈红飞)

3×3 one-handed · top 2.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017CHEN79

Hongfei Chen (陈红飞) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.47, set at Yunnan Open 2018, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 197th in China. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2017, he has put 172 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.04 in May 2017 to 8.66, a 22% improvement. Hongfei has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.4% of 73,695 all-time
11.47
signature single · Yunnan Open 2018
172
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed11.4712.75
top 2.4%197 / 5,922
3×38.6610.31
top 4.1%1,547 / 28,153
4×433.2036.67
top 5.1%509 / 5,926
5×51:05.621:11.88
top 8.8%423 / 2,816
2×23.124.80
top 15.6%2,498 / 15,796
Pyraminx5.977.37
top 19.8%2,262 / 10,224
Skewb5.647.35
top 23.0%1,436 / 5,004

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

Nanning Open 2017: 11.04Guilin Open 2018: 10.78Nanning Open 2018: 8.66Yunnan Open 2018: 9.34Yunnan Open 2019: 13.678.6613.6714 May 20176 Oct 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.