People · China
Ningran Chen (陈宁冉)
3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024CHEN26
Ningran Chen (陈宁冉) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.79, set at Luoyang Spring 2025, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,844th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since March 2024, he has put 40 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.74 in March 2024 to 10.79, a 15% improvement. Ningran has entered two competitions.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.79 | 13.62 | top 9.8% | 3,844 / 28,153 | |
| Skewb | 5.01 | 7.02 | top 18.2% | 1,135 / 5,004 | |
| 2×2 | 4.30 | 4.86 | top 30.3% | 5,201 / 15,796 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.33 | 11.71 | top 55.6% | 5,786 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Mar 2024First competition: Luoyang Spring 2024. A 12.74 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Luoyang Spring 2024 · 10 Mar 2024
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.
- Yanchen Long (龙彦辰) — met in 8 rounds, finished ahead once
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
- Xinyu Wang (王欣宇) — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
- A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.