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Pingda Lu (陆平达)

3×3 · top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018LUPI01

Pingda Lu (陆平达) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.42, set at NTU Welcome 2023, puts him in the top 15.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,030th in China. Across 7 competitions since December 2018, he has put 126 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 22.10 in December 2018 to 3.60, an 84% improvement. Pingda has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.42
signature single · NTU Welcome 2023
126
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.4215.61
top 15.3%6,030 / 28,153
2×23.606.15
top 21.4%3,534 / 15,796
4×447.8556.73
top 21.9%2,361 / 5,926
Pyraminx6.448.78
top 23.3%2,657 / 10,224
Skewb5.8011.47
top 24.2%1,498 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed32.1151.36
top 51.4%4,410 / 5,922
5×52:46.61
early days — 2 solves2,609 / 2,816

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

SJTU Winter Open 2018: 22.10Kunshan Open 2019: 4.01Huzhou Open 2019: 6.97China Championship 2019: 5.00Shaoxing Open 2019: 4.83Singapore AMK CC Cubing 2022: 3.60NTU Welcome 2023: 4.873.6022.1030 Dec 201831 Dec 2022

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 0.42 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.