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Monyuan Cai

3×3 · top 13.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016CAIM01

Monyuan Cai has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.73, set at Breda Open 2017, puts him in the top 13.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 359th in the Netherlands. Across 12 competitions since March 2016, he has put 186 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.82 in March 2016 to 11.73, a 26% improvement. Monyuan has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.0% of 284,439 all-time
11.73
signature single · Breda Open 2017
186
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×311.7314.96
top 13.0%359 / 2,294
3×3 one-handed24.8641.02
top 33.8%220 / 726
Pyraminx8.6725.06
top 42.0%656 / 1,283
2×25.767.72
top 48.3%978 / 1,665
4×41:36.57
top 68.3%674 / 1,000

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

Tulip Open 2016: 15.82Breda Open 2016: 14.80Dutch Nationals 2016: 17.47Dutch Winter 2017: 15.19Zuidplas Open 2017: 15.06Breda Open 2017: 11.73Zwolle Open 2017: 15.98Dutch Nationals 2017: 14.46Dutch Open 2017: 13.46Marathon Open 2017: 14.93Happy New Year Cubing Dordrecht 2018: 14.90Assen Open 2018: 14.3611.7317.4720 Mar 20163 Mar 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 1.73 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 4.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.