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Nevins Chan Pak Hoong (陈百鸿)

5×5 · top 6.2% of 40,792 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010CHAN20

Nevins Chan Pak Hoong (陈百鸿) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 1:01.27, set at Manchester Favourites I 2025, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 52nd in Malaysia. Until August 2011, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 157 competitions since December 2010, he has put 3,302 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 5×5 best has come down from 2:59.81 in December 2010 to 1:01.27, a 66% improvement. Nevins has entered 157 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 6.2% of 40,792 all-time
1:01.27
signature single · Manchester Favourites I 2025
3,302
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
5×51:01.271:12.22
top 6.2%52 / 617
4×435.4943.46
top 7.2%115 / 1,219
6×61:50.342:03.93
top 7.3%28 / 232
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 15 cubes · 46:33—
top 7.9%5 / 48
7×72:58.663:04.77
top 10.2%30 / 188
3×3 blindfolded52.761:15.59
top 10.8%17 / 169
2×22.785.56
top 11.8%307 / 2,541
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves36.33
top 12.2%16 / 112
3×311.6713.80
top 12.7%680 / 3,773
4×4 blindfolded4:05.204:29.87
top 15.2%7 / 31
5×5 blindfolded8:42.7710:10.00
top 16.2%4 / 14
Megaminx1:18.621:23.96
top 20.9%157 / 518
3×3 one-handed20.6526.56
top 22.3%324 / 1,327
Pyraminx7.8910.65
top 35.3%713 / 1,723
Square-128.6337.47
top 46.8%196 / 364
Clock17.4220.97
top 56.8%246 / 406
Skewb14.2517.06
top 75.7%849 / 1,053

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

Malaysian Cube Open 2010: 2:59.81Cyber Open 2012: 2:14.33Malaysia Cube Open 2012: 2:21.90Taylor's Cube Open 2012: 2:00.50UK Open 2012: 1:40.61Edinburgh Open 2013: 1:31.93Leicester Open 2013: 1:40.58Northern Irish Open 2013: 1:29.41Nottingham Open 2014: 1:35.13Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 1:33.05Oxford Open 2014: 1:32.33The Glorious North 2015: 1:34.24August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 1:35.12Cuthberts Open 2015: 1:36.54UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 1:38.02Manchester Open 2016: 1:39.11Exeter Open 2016: 1:44.53UK Championship 2016: 1:37.06Birmingham Open 2016: 1:33.02Manchester Open 2017: 1:24.53Les Franqueses Open 2017: 1:24.23Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 1:23.57Crawley Open 2017: 1:25.60World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 1:22.52Spanish Championship 2017: 1:15.24UK Championship 2017: 1:23.50Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 1:13.60Dublin Open 2017: 1:12.92Fuenlabrada Open 2017: 1:20.91Manchester Open 2018: 1:13.77Parla Open 2018: 1:15.93Romanian Cubing Open 2018: 1:12.90Hastings Open 2018: 1:19.12Icelandic Nationals 2018: 1:17.93Tårnby Cube Træf 2018: 1:11.74Veenendaal Open 2018: 1:11.38Peterborough Open 2018: 1:09.45Medan All Events 2018: 1:13.87Forest City Johor Open 2018: 1:20.60Da Nang Open 2018: 1:12.13PSC Open 2018: 1:11.40Meizhou Open 2018: 1:14.75WCA Asian Championship 2018: 1:14.01Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 1:08.81UK Championship 2018: 1:06.16Malaysia Cube Championship 2018: 1:09.48Manchester Open 2019: 1:18.47Welsh Open 2019: 1:16.74Chester Open 2019: 1:15.68San Marino Nationals 2019: 1:15.05Vienna Cube Day 2019: 1:22.14Leeds Open 2019: 1:12.35Malaysia Cube Championship 2019: 1:12.80Guildford Open 2020: 1:11.90Annuntia Open 2020: 1:10.06Doncaster Open 2020: 1:15.40Swisscubing Cup II 2020: 1:13.25Manchester Open 2020: 1:10.01Wakefield Open 2022: 1:14.76Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 1:14.14Farnworth Spring A 2022: 1:19.60Glasgow Open 2022: 1:17.49Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 1:06.69Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 1:14.24Carlisle Summer 2022: 1:17.87Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 1:12.97Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 1:17.36Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 1:09.18Edinburgh Spring 2023: 1:12.68Bolton Spring 2023: 1:11.26Wakefield Spring 2023: 1:17.04Glasgow Spring 2023: 1:12.52Irish Championship 2023: 1:19.61North Highlands Summer 2023: 1:07.94August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 1:12.85Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 1:08.84Liverpool Winter 2023: 1:20.60Bolton Spring 2024: 1:08.89Crewe Spring 2024: 1:12.86Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 1:10.70Manchester June 2024: 1:12.76Bolton Summer 2024: 1:11.85Crewe Favourites 2025: 1:12.17Crewe Winter 2025: 1:13.95NxN Rīgā 2025: 1:12.88Bolton Spring 2025: 1:13.41Manchester Favourites I 2025: 1:01.27Manchester October 2025: 1:11.19Hampshire Autumn 2025: 1:12.90Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025: 1:06.91Leicestershire Autumn 2025: 1:15.68Manchester 5x5 Day 2025: 1:12.85Wiltshire Winter 2025: 1:04.62VERK X 2025: 1:10.23Oslo Open 2026: 1:11.00Manchester Cubing League - Final 2026: 1:06.84South Wales Summer 2026: 1:12.90Bristol August 2026: 1:12.26Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 1:20.241:01.272:59.8118 Dec 201028 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 5×5. 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-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 1.27 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.