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Luca Chen (陳弈安)

3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018CHEL04

Luca Chen (陳弈安) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.29, set at Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 506th in Chinese Taipei. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2018, he has put 50 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.33 in June 2018 to 10.29, a 47% improvement. Luca has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.29
signature single · Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024
50
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.2911.77
top 8.3%506 / 4,213

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

Maru X 2018: 19.33All is Well Tainan 2019: 17.63Maru Cube Day 2019: 16.54Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2019: 15.19Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024: 10.2910.2919.3330 Jun 201812 Oct 2024

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 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.