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Jaden Dao

2×2 · top 9.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018DAOJ01

Jaden Dao has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.57, set at Puget Sound Summer 2019, puts him in the top 9.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,790th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2018, he has put 126 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.33 in April 2018 to 11.07, a 48% improvement. Jaden has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.6% of 186,767 all-time
2.57
signature single · Puget Sound Summer 2019
126
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.576.61
top 9.6%3,790 / 40,951
3×311.0713.25
top 10.7%5,793 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed19.8223.64
top 20.0%2,576 / 15,683
4×453.4456.02
top 28.9%4,498 / 19,072
Pyraminx8.269.72
top 38.4%10,975 / 28,708
Skewb8.7510.54
top 46.7%8,271 / 18,907
5×52:07.382:11.38
top 53.9%4,559 / 9,401
Megaminx2:31.053:04.55
top 61.6%4,654 / 7,841
6×64:18.914:34.47
top 71.4%2,817 / 4,196
Square-158.01
early days — 2 solves5,504 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded7:57.04
early days — 1 solve1,980 / 2,092

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

Puget Sound Spring 2018: 21.33Puget Sound Summer 2019: 12.38Puget Sound Fall 2019: 12.67Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 11.0711.0721.3321 Apr 20187 Dec 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.07 away.

Targets move as he improves.