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Kuan-Yu Chen (陳冠宇)

3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2009 · 2009KUAN01

Kuan-Yu Chen (陳冠宇) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.69, set at Taiwan Summer Open 2009, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 574th in Chinese Taipei. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since February 2009, he has put 135 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.86 in February 2009 to 10.69, a 33% improvement. He has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.69
signature single · Taiwan Summer Open 2009
135
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.6914.94
top 9.5%574 / 4,213
3×3 one-handed21.9425.26
top 25.9%339 / 802
4×41:00.271:06.77
top 36.7%611 / 1,078
5×51:54.272:07.42
top 45.5%433 / 639
Pyraminx10.1112.50
top 53.9%649 / 1,016
2×26.848.15
top 59.1%1,242 / 1,669
Square-144.8655.66
top 70.9%253 / 323
6×64:38.555:09.70
top 76.9%263 / 292
7×76:45.056:54.34
top 77.4%222 / 252

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

Taiwan Winter Open 2009: 15.86Taiwan Spring Open 2009: 13.55Taiwan Summer Open 2009: 10.69Taiwan Winter Open 2010: 14.5210.6915.868 Feb 20096 Feb 2010

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 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 1.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.