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Hongfei Tian (田洪飞)

2×2 · top 4.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2010 · 2010TIAN03

Hongfei Tian (田洪飞) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.03, set at UIUC Fall 2012, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 689th in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since February 2010, he has put 674 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.19 in February 2010 to 11.97, a 34% improvement. Hongfei has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.9% of 186,767 all-time
2.03
signature single · UIUC Fall 2012
674
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×22.035.42
top 4.9%689 / 15,796
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves43.67
top 12.2%122 / 1,058
3×311.9714.15
top 13.8%5,438 / 28,153
Pyraminx6.398.52
top 22.9%2,613 / 10,224
Clock10.6512.20
top 28.3%660 / 1,843
4×453.6659.86
top 29.1%3,004 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed23.3627.30
top 29.7%2,879 / 5,922
5×51:37.161:47.31
top 33.2%1,499 / 2,816
Megaminx1:40.121:56.14
top 34.7%1,025 / 1,678
Square-126.6834.71
top 42.8%736 / 1,362
7×74:36.585:04.45
top 43.3%802 / 1,261
6×63:14.223:23.71
top 47.8%921 / 1,349
3×3 blindfolded2:50.803:45.57
top 49.8%695 / 1,183
Skewb9.2811.78
top 50.4%2,845 / 5,004
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 17:23—
early days — 2 solves235 / 278

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

Chicago Open 2010: 18.19Cat and Mouse 2010: 15.58Dayton Open 2010: 15.33UIUC Spring 2011: 14.47UIndy Open 2011: 12.90United States National Championships 2011: 13.36Indiana 2011: 11.97Shanghai Summer 2012: 15.75UIUC Fall 2012: 13.08UIUC Spring 2013: 12.00Dixon Summer 2013: 14.22Indiana 2013: 12.36Kew Forest Open 2018: 14.46New York City Fall 2018: 14.50GCU Spring 2023: 15.07North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 13.55Jay House of Cubes 2023: 13.56Westport Warmup 2023: 12.40Westchester Weeknights 4 2023: 14.66Newark's On Track 2023: 13.11Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 12.4811.9718.196 Feb 201018 Nov 2023

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.97 away.

Targets move as he improves.