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Shenchuan Mao (毛神川)

7×7 · top 2.5% of 14,226 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011MAOS01

Shenchuan Mao (毛神川) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:21.65, set at Fujian Championship 2018, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in China. Until July 2016, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since July 2011, he has put 1,229 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.28 in July 2011 to 8.38, a 49% improvement. Shenchuan has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 2.5% of 14,226 all-time
2:21.65
signature single · Fujian Championship 2018
1,229
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
7×72:21.652:39.70
top 2.5%47 / 1,261
3×38.389.91
top 3.5%1,313 / 28,153
2×22.063.66
top 5.2%719 / 15,796
5×51:02.831:09.88
top 7.1%335 / 2,816
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves37.00
top 8.0%79 / 1,058
3×3 one-handed15.6218.82
top 9.4%902 / 5,922
6×61:55.981:57.71
top 9.5%207 / 1,349
4×440.7244.50
top 12.9%1,402 / 5,926
Pyraminx6.169.48
top 21.2%2,427 / 10,224
Square-125.6333.31
top 40.5%689 / 1,362
Megaminx2:38.072:47.37
top 65.1%1,494 / 1,678
Clock38.3342.26
top 92.3%1,767 / 1,843

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

Xiamen Open 2011: 16.28Hefei Spring 2012: 14.05Shantou Open 2013: 11.05Shanghai Summer 2013: 12.66Xiamen Open 2013: 10.91Wenzhou Open 2013: 11.50Fuzhou Open 2014: 12.83Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 11.45Shanghai Fudan Spring 2015: 10.42Wenzhou Open 2015: 11.68Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 10.19Fuzhou Open 2015: 9.02Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 11.92Twisting Fingers in New Taipei City 2015: 11.77Shenzhen New Year 2016: 10.67Xiamen Open 2016: 10.19TKK Open 2016: 9.84Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 11.80Quanzhou Open 2016: 11.47Xiamen Open 2017: 11.53Fuzhou Open 2017: 12.43Quanzhou Open 2017: 9.67Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 11.22Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 11.56Xiamen Autumn 2017: 9.91TKK Open 2017: 10.89Fujian Championship 2018: 9.49Quanzhou Open 2018: 9.63Xiamen Open 2018: 10.54Xiamen Open 2019: 8.91Longyan Open 2019: 10.28Xiamen Winter 2019: 8.388.3816.2816 Jul 20111 Dec 2019

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-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 21.65 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.