People · Chinese Taipei
Nien-Ping Chen (陳念平)
3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016CHNI01
Nien-Ping Chen (陳念平) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.70, set at Maru X 2018, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 242nd in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since December 2016, he has put 487 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.79 in December 2016 to 8.70, a 26% improvement. He has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chinese Taipei | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.70 | 10.24 | top 4.2% | 242 / 4,213 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.39 | 6.86 | top 5.0% | 82 / 1,016 | |
| 2×2 | 2.12 | 4.34 | top 5.6% | 150 / 1,669 | |
| 4×4 | 35.92 | 42.34 | top 7.6% | 185 / 1,078 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.50 | 1:24.11 | top 18.7% | 239 / 639 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.90 | 27.44 | top 28.5% | 369 / 802 | |
| Skewb | 7.14 | 11.69 | top 34.7% | 328 / 699 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 37 moves | — | top 37.3% | 80 / 204 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:44.35 | — | early days — 3 solves | 71 / 147 | |
| 6×6 | 3:16.42 | 4:01.37 | top 48.7% | 205 / 292 | |
| 7×7 | 5:21.77 | — | early days — 1 solve | 189 / 252 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Jun 2018First sub-10 3×3: 8.70 at Maru X 2018.
- 30 Jun 2018Three personal bests in one day at Maru X 2018.
- 17 Dec 2016First competition: Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016. A 12.95 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Taichung Open 2023 · 11 Feb 2023
- Taiwan Championship 2022 · 16 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Maru Cube Day 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Taiwan Open 2022 · 14 Jan 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Welcome Back Taipei 2021 · 19 Dec 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Maru Cube Day 2021 · 11 Dec 2021
- Taiwan Championship 2020 · 18 Dec 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Championship 2019 · 13 Dec 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019 · 12 Oct 2019
- Dream One Cube Open 2019 · 15 Sep 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019 · 21 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Taichung Cubing Open 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- WCA Asian Championship 2018 · 17 Aug 2018
- Maru X 2018 · 30 Jun 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Hsinchu Winter Open 2018 · 4 Feb 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016 · 17 Dec 2016 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Chao-Che Chung (鍾肇哲) — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Shu-Yii Luo (駱書翊) — met in 100 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Ping-Yueh Huang (黃品越) — met in 95 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
Targets move as he improves.