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Ming Gao (高鸣)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since December 2007 · 2007MING01

Ming Gao (高鸣) has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 60th in China. Across 20 competitions since December 2007, he has put 452 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.38 in May 2008 to 11.15, a 32% improvement. Ming has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time
26 moves
signature single · Asian Championship 2016
452
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves43.67
top 6.2%60 / 1,058
2×22.494.27
top 8.8%1,300 / 15,796
3×311.1513.34
top 10.9%4,284 / 28,153
Pyraminx7.659.82
top 33.3%3,654 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed25.5232.72
top 35.6%3,378 / 5,922
4×459.881:06.18
top 36.3%3,578 / 5,926
3×3 blindfolded2:27.52
early days — 1 solve615 / 1,183
Skewb11.3718.83
top 62.8%3,414 / 5,004
Megaminx3:17.133:45.81
top 79.9%1,597 / 1,678
Clock29.7236.17
top 84.0%1,699 / 1,843
5×54:16.30
early days — 2 solves2,781 / 2,816

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

Beijing Spring Open 2008: 16.38Beijing Spring Open 2009: 14.27Beijing Summer Open 2009: 15.03Beijing Winter 2009: 11.69Alpha Cube BUAA Open 2010: 13.68Beijing Summer 2012: 11.30Tianjin Winter 2012: 11.15Beijing Summer 2013: 12.63Beijing Spring 2014: 13.60BUAA Open 2014: 13.10Asian Championship 2016: 12.96Beijing Open 2017: 12.70Beijing Open 2018: 13.62China Championship 2018: 12.87Beijing Spring PM 2021: 15.1411.1516.382 May 20084 Apr 2021

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.