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Mingxuan Nie (聂明轩)

3×3 · top 29.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015NIEM02

Mingxuan Nie (聂明轩) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.62, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts him in the top 29.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,936th in China. Across 8 competitions since October 2015, he has put 133 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.43 in October 2015 to 16.62, a 50% improvement. Mingxuan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.8% of 284,439 all-time
16.62
signature single · Asian Championship 2016
133
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×316.6219.78
top 29.8%10,936 / 28,153
Clock11.9314.61
top 34.6%825 / 1,843
2×24.685.60
top 35.2%6,068 / 15,796
Pyraminx8.6311.60
top 41.6%4,470 / 10,224
4×41:18.75
early days — 2 solves4,784 / 5,926
Skewb10.9814.86
top 60.7%3,307 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed44.401:04.10
top 70.9%5,372 / 5,922

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

China Championship 2015: 33.43Asian Championship 2016: 16.62Beijing Winter 2018: 19.88UCSD Spring 2023: 18.94UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 20.04UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 19.09Triton Tricubealon 2024: 20.90UCSD Fall 2024: 17.2416.6233.432 Oct 201523 Nov 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
  • A sub-10 Clock single — 8,040 people have one; it is 1.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.