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Shen Jin (金慎)

3×3 · top 28.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2009 · 2009JINS01

Shen Jin (金慎) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.14, set at Shanghai Summer Open 2015, puts him in the top 28.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,472nd in China. Across 14 competitions since April 2009, he has put 88 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.21 in April 2009 to 16.14, a 50% improvement. Shen has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 28.2% of 284,439 all-time
16.14
signature single · Shanghai Summer Open 2015
88
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×316.1418.01
top 28.2%10,472 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed36.9154.97
top 60.6%4,910 / 5,922
2×28.1811.50
top 68.9%11,356 / 15,796

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

Qingming Festival Open 2009: 32.21Shanghai Weisuo Open 2009: 24.81Shanghai Winter Cubing Festival 2010: 20.68Shanghai Open 2010: 19.71Shanghai Meatball Fall 2011: 18.38Shanghai Summer 2012: 18.66Shanghai Summer 2013: 20.43Shanghai Spring 2014: 21.08Shanghai Fudan Spring 2015: 19.16Shanghai Summer Open 2015: 16.14Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 17.57Shanghai Spring 2017: 17.07Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 17.90SJTU Open 2018: 16.5316.1432.216 Apr 200930 Jun 2018

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 one-handed single — 34,382 people have one; it is 6.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.