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Patrick Chen
3×3 · top 7.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013CHEN10
Patrick Chen has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.03, set at Cubes on the Bayside 2023, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,233rd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since April 2013, he has put 1,173 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.21 in April 2013 to 10.03, a 55% improvement. Patrick has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.03 | 12.59 | top 7.6% | 4,233 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.13 | 6.48 | top 8.4% | 2,179 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 3.21 | 4.14 | top 16.8% | 6,666 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.15 | 24.09 | top 23.7% | 3,080 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 49.43 | 55.91 | top 24.1% | 3,726 / 19,354 | |
| Skewb | 5.93 | 10.40 | top 25.3% | 4,152 / 19,164 | |
| Megaminx | 1:34.27 | 1:46.16 | top 31.0% | 2,226 / 8,026 | |
| 5×5 | 1:34.32 | 1:45.92 | top 31.0% | 2,478 / 9,537 | |
| Clock | 11.74 | 12.39 | top 33.7% | 2,720 / 9,172 | |
| 7×7 | 4:47.42 | 5:16.05 | top 47.1% | 1,391 / 3,236 | |
| 6×6 | 3:13.26 | 3:34.24 | top 47.4% | 1,796 / 4,262 | |
| Square-1 | 32.87 | 55.10 | top 54.8% | 3,669 / 6,846 |
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
- 11 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Pop Off Princeton 2025.
- 6 Apr 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.76 at Ridge Cubing 2019.
- 6 Apr 2019Three personal bests in one day at Ridge Cubing 2019.
- 8 Dec 2018Three personal bests in one day at Liberty Science Center Open 2018.
- 21 Oct 2018Three personal bests in one day at New York City Fall 2018.
- 29 Sep 2018First sub-20 3×3: 19.17 at Princeton Fall 2018.
Competitions
- Liberty Science Center Fall A 2026 · 12 Sep 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2026 · 22 Mar 2026
- No Sprinting NY 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025 · 7 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Manhattan Megaminx Mayhem 2 2025 · 13 Sep 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025 · 20 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open A 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Pop Off Princeton 2025 · 11 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Spring into Summit 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Don't Pop Princeton 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- NYU Winter 2024 · 2 Mar 2024
- Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024 · 14 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- GCU Winter 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubes on the Bayside 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Newark's On Track 2023 · 26 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- GCU Spring 2023 · 6 May 2023
- PBs in Palisades 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022
- Babylon Summer 2022 · 18 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Westport Summer 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- East Brunswick Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Babylon Fall 2021 · 14 Nov 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Babylon Winter 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Winter 2020 · 8 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2019 · 14 Dec 2019
- SBU Fall 2019 · 23 Nov 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Brooklyn Fall 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Arcadia Summer 2019 · 22 Jun 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Meadowlands 2019 · 4 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Ridge Cubing 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- SBU Spring 2019 · 31 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Long Island Winter 2019 · 23 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Winter 2019 · 9 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- New York City Fall 2018 · 21 Oct 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Princeton Fall 2018 · 29 Sep 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018 · 2 Jun 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Cornell Open Spring 2014 · 27 Apr 2014
- Cornell Open Spring 2013 · 6 Apr 2013
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.
- Ayden Dincher — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Parker Trager — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Eli Rogers — met in 123 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
Targets move as he improves.