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Lance Taningco

3×3 · top 34.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015TANI01

Lance Taningco has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.23, set at Newport Spring 2016, puts him in the top 34.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19,408th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since February 2015, he has put 82 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.41 in February 2015 to 18.23, a 53% improvement. Lance has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 34.8% of 284,439 all-time
18.23
signature single · Newport Spring 2016
82
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×318.2321.82
top 34.8%19,408 / 59,724
2×25.196.73
top 41.7%16,742 / 40,951
Skewb10.0915.59
top 55.5%10,079 / 18,907
Pyraminx11.6113.06
top 64.7%19,120 / 28,708
4×41:44.01
top 73.2%13,261 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed57.891:03.25
top 82.7%12,342 / 15,683

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

Caltech Winter Open 2015: 38.41Alliance for Education 2015: 21.35Caltech Winter 2016: 19.51Newport Spring 2016: 18.23Poly Cubed 2016: 22.6118.2338.4121 Feb 20157 May 2016

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.23 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.