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Ryan Tan

3×3 · top 0.015% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022TANR02

Ryan Tan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.03, set at Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024, puts him in the top 0.015% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Australia. Until November 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since August 2022, he has put 573 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.23 in August 2022 to 4.03, a 64% improvement. Ryan has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.015% of 284,439 all-time
4.03
signature single · Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024
573
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×34.036.55
top 0.015%3 / 11,709
2×21.232.91
top 1.1%117 / 8,567
4×430.9633.83
top 3.4%93 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed12.5614.40
top 3.7%86 / 2,659
Pyraminx4.958.35
top 12.9%610 / 5,993
5×51:36.141:45.23
top 32.4%436 / 1,356
3×3 blindfolded3:36.00
early days — 1 solve277 / 394
Megaminx2:41.95
early days — 2 solves862 / 1,277

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

Sydney Winter Saturday 2022: 11.23Marrickville Mini Open AM 2022: 11.72North Sydney Cube Day 2023: 8.19Warm Up Sydney Saturday 2023: 7.83Cubing at Tramsheds Sunday 2023: 7.13Simple Sydney Sunday 2023: 7.78Australian Nationals 2023: 6.89Sydney Summer 2023: 7.41Cubing at The Cube 2024: 7.24Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024: 7.13Tramsheds III: August Sunday 2024: 4.03Sydney Spring Sunday 2024: 6.39Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2024: 6.63Tramsheds IV: Summer Sunday 2025: 5.81NSW State Championship 2025: 5.76Tramsheds V: Autumn Sunday 2025: 6.80Australian Nationals 2025: 6.53Tramsheds VII: Spring Sunday 2025: 5.82Tramsheds IX: June Sunday 2026: 5.92Tramsheds X: Winter Sunday 2026: 5.524.0311.7227 Aug 202230 Aug 2026

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.

  • Sora Sato — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
  • James Kirschner — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
  • Bryan Eng — met in 80 rounds, finished ahead 14 times

Next targets

  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.