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Nien-Chin Tsai (蔡念志)

3×3 · top 56.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2015 · 2015TSAI08

Nien-Chin Tsai (蔡念志) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 26.91, set at Taipei Open 2017, puts him in the top 56.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,843rd in Chinese Taipei. Across 4 competitions since December 2015, he has put 45 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.58 in December 2015 to 26.91, a 15% improvement. He has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 56.7% of 284,439 all-time
26.91
signature single · Taipei Open 2017
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×326.9133.61
top 56.7%2,843 / 4,213
2×210.7615.81
top 80.7%1,532 / 1,669
4×42:09.89
top 85.8%998 / 1,078
Pyraminx56.41
early days — 2 solves1,014 / 1,016

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

Taipei Open 2015: 31.58Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 27.99Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 28.87Taipei Open 2017: 26.9126.9131.586 Dec 201511 Feb 2017

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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 1.91 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.