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Sheng-Fan Tsai (蔡勝帆)

3×3 · top 3.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022TSAI02

Sheng-Fan Tsai (蔡勝帆) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at BQHS Spring Open 2025, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 201st in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since August 2022, he has put 579 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.51 in August 2022 to 8.35, a 27% improvement. He has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.5% of 288,433 all-time
8.35
signature single · BQHS Spring Open 2025
579
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×38.3510.42
top 3.5%201 / 4,369
2×21.793.08
top 3.6%87 / 1,671
Skewb3.195.84
top 6.0%64 / 700
4×435.2139.69
top 7.0%171 / 1,079
5×51:03.191:13.07
top 7.4%119 / 640
Pyraminx4.536.90
top 10.4%160 / 1,017
Megaminx1:01.671:10.33
top 10.9%60 / 363
7×73:05.353:07.98
top 12.0%58 / 252
6×62:08.522:13.93
top 14.8%87 / 293
Square-115.1322.64
top 16.8%78 / 323
3×3 one-handed18.8722.12
top 17.5%234 / 805
Clock11.3617.20
top 31.8%141 / 370
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves51.33
top 71.6%154 / 205

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

Pingtung Summer Open 2022: 11.51Taichung Open 2023: 14.00Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 9.50Maru Cube Day 2023: 9.77Taiwan Championship 2023: 9.87Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 10.47Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 11.22Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 10.13Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024: 9.87Taiwan Championship 2024: 8.91Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 9.81BQHS Spring Open 2025: 8.35Zhongshan Open 2025: 9.34Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 8.99Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 10.11Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 9.47Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 9.98Taiwan Championship 2025: 10.46Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 8.81Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026: 10.288.3514.0013 Aug 202213 Sep 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.