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Janelle Tin

3×3 · top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010TINJ01

Janelle Tin has been competing for 16 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.13, set at VanCubing Winter 2014, puts her in the top 7.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,321st in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since July 2010, she has put 1,269 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.97 in July 2010 to 10.13, a 58% improvement. Janelle has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.13
signature single · VanCubing Winter 2014
1,269
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.1312.85
top 7.8%4,321 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed15.5818.94
top 9.3%1,233 / 15,683
2×22.904.09
top 13.1%5,164 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.858.61
top 18.9%5,026 / 28,708
4×448.4054.67
top 22.6%3,429 / 19,072
Skewb6.1810.51
top 27.2%4,426 / 18,907
Square-127.7434.98
top 45.1%2,930 / 6,743
5×51:54.782:06.53
top 45.8%3,782 / 9,401
Clock15.6523.20
top 50.5%4,118 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
top 62.5%1,310 / 2,040

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

Vancouver Open 2010: 23.97Big Cubes BC 2011: 15.69Vancouver Summer 2011: 13.22Lynden Open 2012: 12.91Couve Cubing 2012: 12.44Groovik's Cube Seattle 2012: 12.71United States National Championships 2012: 13.33Vancouver Open Summer 2012: 14.43Cube Kingdom 2013: 12.36Vancouver Open Winter 2013: 11.97Coastal Cubing 2013: 12.84World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 12.36Vancouver Open Summer 2013: 12.40Mid-Columbia Cubing Competition 2013: 12.77Southwest Showdown 2013: 12.40Bay Area Speedcubin' 2 2014: 12.86Caltech Winter Open 2014: 13.34Vancouver Open Winter 2014: 11.46Cube Kingdom II 2014: 13.01US Nationals 2014: 13.35Starlight Open 2014: 11.91Vancouver Open Summer 2014: 11.03VanCubing Winter 2014: 10.13Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 11.97Vancouver Open Spring 2015: 11.18UW Spring 2015: 12.27Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 10.75SoCal Supercomp 2015: 11.48Vancouver Open Summer 2015: 11.61Puget Sound Open 2015: 11.38Cajun Cube Clash 2017: 11.75Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 11.25Nisei Week 2018: 12.3510.1323.973 Jul 201018 Aug 2018

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 her.

  • Kristopher De Asis — met in 148 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
  • Ben Yu — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
  • Daniel Chan — met in 99 rounds, finished ahead 41 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as she improves.