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Stephen Wen

3×3 · top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2011 · 2011WENS01

Stephen Wen has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.93, set at Toronto Open Winter 2012, puts him in the top 17.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,612th in Canada. Across 13 competitions since March 2011, he has put 262 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.71 in March 2011 to 12.93, a 34% improvement. Stephen has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.93
signature single · Toronto Open Winter 2012
262
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×312.9317.96
top 17.2%1,612 / 10,392
2×23.595.76
top 21.3%1,426 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed27.3034.74
top 40.1%890 / 2,620
Pyraminx11.9315.11
top 66.8%3,301 / 4,858
Megaminx5:27.18
top 97.4%1,332 / 1,375

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

Toronto Open Winter 2011: 19.71Toronto Open Spring 2011: 19.83canadianCUBING CUBEcentric 2011: 17.31Toronto Open Summer 2011: 22.65Canadian Open 2011: 22.22Toronto Open Winter 2012: 12.93Toronto Spring 2012: 15.11Toronto Summer 2012: 16.06Toronto Open Winter 2013: 19.77Canadian Open 2013: 17.00Toronto Open Spring 2014: 17.08CanadianCUBING Fifty 2014: 14.59Toronto Open Summer 2014: 16.8212.9322.655 Mar 20119 Aug 2014

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.