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Min-Yan Tsai (蔡旻諺)

3×3 · top 12.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015TSAI06

Min-Yan Tsai (蔡旻諺) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.55, set at Taiwan Championship 2017, puts him in the top 12.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 746th in Chinese Taipei. Across 10 competitions since August 2015, he has put 239 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.50 in August 2015 to 11.55, a 34% improvement. He has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.3% of 284,439 all-time
11.55
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2017
239
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×311.5513.84
top 12.3%746 / 4,213
4×441.4648.72
top 13.9%308 / 1,078
5×51:23.171:37.05
top 21.7%258 / 639
Pyraminx6.5513.31
top 24.2%351 / 1,016
Skewb6.1013.51
top 26.5%250 / 699
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves43.33
top 26.7%59 / 204
2×24.475.86
top 32.5%782 / 1,669
Megaminx2:04.082:11.53
top 48.0%236 / 362
Square-130.4436.38
top 50.2%194 / 323
3×3 one-handed32.29
top 51.8%595 / 802
6×63:40.853:57.92
top 59.0%224 / 292
3×3 blindfolded3:40.534:31.77
top 63.5%104 / 147
Clock39.071:04.85
top 92.8%345 / 366

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

Twisting Fingers in New Taipei City 2015: 17.50Maru Cube Day 2016: 14.36Happy Cubing Taiwan 2016: 13.22Taiwan Championship 2016: 12.36Taipei Open 2017: 13.13Maru Cube Day 2017: 12.98Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 13.28Taiwan Championship 2017: 11.55WCA Asian Championship 2018: 13.4611.5517.5022 Aug 201517 Aug 2018

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 1.55 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 1.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.