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Paul Tan II

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010TANJ02

Paul Tan II has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.31, set at Cebu Open 2011, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 885th in the Philippines. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2010, he has put 69 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.47 in December 2010 to 10.31, a 17% improvement. Paul has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.31
signature single · Cebu Open 2011
69
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPhilippines
3×310.3112.50
top 8.4%885 / 6,270
4×454.801:01.30
top 30.5%822 / 2,135
Pyraminx7.4015.22
top 31.1%867 / 2,621
2×24.386.82
top 31.4%1,541 / 4,257
5×52:49.52
early days — 2 solves760 / 928
3×3 blindfolded5:10.38
early days — 2 solves237 / 274

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

Cebu Open 2010: 12.47Cube Ta Bai 2011: 11.78Cebu Open 2011: 10.3110.3112.477 Dec 201017 Dec 2011

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 7 Dec 2010First competition: Cebu Open 2010. A 12.47 3×3 single to start from.

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 0.31 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 4.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.