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Mingzhe Dai (戴明哲)

4×4 · top 34.8% of 83,917 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017DAIM01

Mingzhe Dai (戴明哲) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 58.46, set at Changsha Xiangmo 2018, puts him in the top 34.8% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,445th in China. Across 2 competitions since May 2017, he has put 30 official solves on the record across six events. His 4×4 best has come down from 1:39.04 in May 2017 to 58.46, a 41% improvement. Mingzhe has entered two competitions.

4×4
best event — top 34.8% of 83,917 all-time
58.46
signature single · Changsha Xiangmo 2018
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×458.461:07.55
top 34.8%3,445 / 5,926
3×320.5127.39
top 41.4%14,078 / 28,153
5×52:18.63
early days — 2 solves2,374 / 2,816
Skewb12.2314.82
top 67.2%3,566 / 5,004
2×211.3413.49
top 82.5%13,218 / 15,796
Pyraminx18.6221.40
top 90.9%9,009 / 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

Changsha Xiangmo 2017: 1:39.04Changsha Xiangmo 2018: 58.4658.461:39.046 May 201729 Apr 2018

Best single per competition, 4×4. 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-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 8.46 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.