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Pei-Yin Tien (田沛茵)

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2016 · 2016TIEN01

Pei-Yin Tien (田沛茵) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.69, set at Kaohsiung Open 2016, puts her in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 240th in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since February 2016, she has put 344 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.09 in February 2016 to 8.69, a 57% improvement. She has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.69
signature single · Kaohsiung Open 2016
344
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×38.6912.63
top 4.2%240 / 4,213
Pyraminx3.535.58
top 5.6%94 / 1,016
2×22.683.46
top 10.7%300 / 1,669
Square-113.7217.28
top 13.6%64 / 323
4×453.581:03.19
top 29.0%531 / 1,078
5×51:51.651:54.90
top 43.8%419 / 639
3×3 one-handed34.72
early days — 2 solves634 / 802

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

Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 20.09Taichung Cube Open 2016: 17.25Maru Cube Day 2016: 13.85Kaohsiung Open 2016: 8.69Taiwan Championship 2016: 11.96Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016: 12.26All is Well 2017: 11.68Kaohsiung Summer Open 2017: 11.32Maru Cube Day 2017: 10.56Lanyang Open 2017: 12.31Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 11.218.6920.0927 Feb 201612 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as she improves.