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Ping Chen (陈平)

3×3 · top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018CHEN83

Ping Chen (陈平) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.48, set at Hangzhou Open 2024, puts him in the top 15.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,110th in China. Across 6 competitions since May 2018, he has put 103 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.87 in May 2018 to 12.48, a 43% improvement. Ping has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.6% of 284,439 all-time
12.48
signature single · Hangzhou Open 2024
103
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.4813.20
top 15.6%6,110 / 28,153
4×443.2649.06
top 16.1%1,747 / 5,926
Skewb6.4212.45
top 29.1%1,795 / 5,004
2×25.106.26
top 40.6%7,022 / 15,796
Pyraminx10.4213.34
top 56.2%5,845 / 10,224

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

Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018: 21.87Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018: 21.77Nanchang Open 2019: 16.45China Championship 2019: 16.95Nanchang Winter 2019: 13.58Hangzhou Open 2024: 12.4812.4821.875 May 201815 Dec 2024

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.