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Memo Gao

3×3 · top 24.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2021 · 2021GAOM01

Memo Gao has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.07, set at Auckland Matariki Open 2024, puts him in the top 24.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,310th in China. Across 12 competitions since August 2021, he has put 147 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:05.52 in August 2021 to 15.07, a 77% improvement. Memo has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.7% of 284,439 all-time
15.07
signature single · Auckland Matariki Open 2024
147
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×315.0717.40
top 24.7%9,310 / 28,153
2×26.318.01
top 54.1%9,177 / 15,796
Pyraminx14.7219.98
top 80.8%7,991 / 10,224

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

NZ North Island Championship 2021: 1:05.52Popping Off Pukekohe B 2022: 40.24Three Rounds Whangarei 2022: 28.35Palmerston North 2023: 22.98Auckland Autumn 2023: 20.53Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 21.62NZ South Island Championship 2023: 18.70Tauranga Open 2023: 18.85NZ North Island Championship 2023: 19.21A New Year in Auckland 2024: 18.06Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 15.07Australian Nationals 2024: 15.2215.071:05.5213 Aug 202112 Jul 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.

  • Yuki Gao — met in 30 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Peter Gao — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Elyas Eyou — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.07 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.