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Ningyuan Chen (陈宁远)

3×3 · top 13.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2013 · 2013CHEN98

Ningyuan Chen (陈宁远) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.00, set at Fuzhou Open 2016, puts him in the top 13.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,491st in China. Across 4 competitions since December 2013, he has put 96 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.75 in December 2013 to 12.00, a 36% improvement. Ningyuan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.00
signature single · Fuzhou Open 2016
96
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.0014.51
top 13.9%5,491 / 28,153
Skewb4.575.28
top 15.0%921 / 5,004
2×23.154.87
top 16.0%2,569 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed19.5326.63
top 19.2%1,931 / 5,922
Pyraminx10.1913.50
top 54.5%5,681 / 10,224
4×41:21.76
top 57.4%4,896 / 5,926

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

Fuzhou Open 2013: 18.75Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 17.53Fuzhou Open 2016: 12.00Quanzhou Open 2017: 14.0212.0018.7515 Dec 20132 Jul 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.