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Nuo Chen (陈诺)

Pyraminx · top 3.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017CHNU02

Nuo Chen (陈诺) has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.80, set at Chengdu Summer 2024, puts her in the top 3.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 351st in China. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since July 2017, she has put 585 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 21.43 in July 2017 to 9.40, a 56% improvement. Nuo has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.0% of 129,321 all-time
2.80
signature single · Chengdu Summer 2024
585
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx2.803.82
top 3.0%351 / 10,224
3×39.4011.86
top 5.8%2,251 / 28,153
Clock5.566.56
top 5.9%113 / 1,843
2×22.473.47
top 8.6%1,267 / 15,796
Skewb4.457.10
top 14.1%856 / 5,004
Megaminx1:11.551:18.23
top 16.6%499 / 1,678
4×445.7051.89
top 19.2%2,083 / 5,926
5×51:30.371:47.33
top 27.6%1,271 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed23.2729.45
top 29.5%2,862 / 5,922
Square-120.9426.76
top 30.1%511 / 1,362
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 1 solve774 / 1,058
6×64:38.25
early days — 1 solve1,245 / 1,349
7×77:20.25
early days — 2 solves1,192 / 1,261

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

Quanzhou Open 2017: 21.43Longyan Summer Open 2017: 26.84Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 26.03Fujian Championship 2018: 19.77Zhangzhou Open 2018: 16.32Longyan Open 2018: 19.51Quanzhou Open 2018: 16.99Xiamen Open 2018: 19.28Xiamen Open 2019: 15.24Quanzhou Open 2019: 20.33Xiamen Autumn 2019: 18.24Guangzhou Good Morning 2020: 15.46Singapore Championship 2023: 12.86Hanoi Super Brain Zyo 2023: 11.43Hong Kong Cube Day 2023: 11.12Hong Kong Small Cube Day 2023: 11.98Vietnam Championship 2023: 12.45Hanoi Summer 2023: 10.73Zamiin-Uud Open 2023: 11.71Suncheon Fall 2023: 11.03Shenzhen Open 2023: 11.29Zibo Open 2024: 11.20Chengdu Summer 2024: 9.40Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024: 10.22Nanchang Spring 2025: 12.689.4026.842 Jul 201726 Apr 2025

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.40 away.

Targets move as she improves.