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Jiawen Wu (吴嘉文)

3×3 · top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2010 · 2010WUJI01

Jiawen Wu (吴嘉文) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.38, set at Nanjing Autumn 2017, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,313th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since February 2010, he has put 1,038 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.44 in February 2010 to 8.38, a 59% improvement. Jiawen has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.38
signature single · Nanjing Autumn 2017
1,038
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.3811.76
top 3.5%1,313 / 28,153
2×21.943.24
top 4.4%587 / 15,796
Pyraminx4.136.44
top 8.3%992 / 10,224
Skewb3.666.63
top 8.7%501 / 5,004
4×437.6943.76
top 9.4%995 / 5,926
3×3 blindfolded1:01.701:07.05
top 13.6%205 / 1,183
3×3 one-handed17.7120.97
top 14.3%1,418 / 5,922
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves34.67
top 14.8%148 / 1,058
5×51:27.081:35.45
top 25.0%1,166 / 2,816
Clock10.1012.70
top 25.6%581 / 1,843
Megaminx1:32.971:41.09
top 30.1%904 / 1,678
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 10 cubes · 55:43—
top 34.4%94 / 278
Square-128.6135.74
top 46.8%799 / 1,362
7×74:56.325:25.84
top 49.6%876 / 1,261
6×63:19.583:28.73
top 50.3%956 / 1,349
4×4 blindfolded8:52.229:43.28
top 50.5%93 / 149
5×5 blindfolded24:17.00—
early days — 1 solve77 / 95

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

Shanghai Winter Cubing Festival 2010: 20.44Beijing Summer Open 2011: 13.86Suzhou Open 2011: 13.22Shanghai Port Open 2011: 12.86Shanghai Snowball Winter 2011: 12.77Shanghai Donghua 2012: 11.84Shanghai Summer 2012: 12.40Suzhou Open 2012: 11.69Zhejiang University 2013: 11.89Shanghai Maritime Open 2013: 10.33NUAA Open 2013: 11.09Hefei Open 2013: 10.81Wuxi Open 2013: 10.93Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 12.15Shanghai Spring 2014: 10.00Hefei Spring 2014: 10.34Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 12.06Shanghai Fudan Spring 2015: 12.70Nanjing Spring 2015: 10.78Zhengzhou Open 2015: 11.46Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 10.77Nanjing Autumn 2017: 8.38Shanghai Winter 2018: 9.55Shanghai Open 2019: 12.238.3820.447 Feb 201019 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.