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Lai Thiam Sin

3×3 · top 50.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2009 · 2009SINL01

Lai Thiam Sin has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 24.09, set at Perak Rubik's Cube Open 2010, puts him in the top 50.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,465th in Malaysia. Across 3 competitions since November 2009, he has put 34 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Lai has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 50.6% of 284,439 all-time
24.09
signature single · Perak Rubik's Cube Open 2010
34
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×324.0929.44
top 50.6%2,465 / 3,773
2×26.5813.30
top 56.7%1,740 / 2,541

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

Malaysian Open 2009: 24.31Perak Rubik's Cube Open 2010: 24.09Petrosains Playsmart Math Carnival 2011: 26.8624.0926.8628 Nov 200919 Mar 2011

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 4.09 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.