People · China
Taiquan Chen (陈泰荃)
3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025CHEN02
Taiquan Chen (陈泰荃) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.67, set at Beijing Winter 2025, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,704th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2025, he has put 64 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Taiquan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.67 | 13.03 | top 9.5% | 3,704 / 28,153 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.71 | 9.24 | top 25.5% | 2,874 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 4.10 | 4.87 | top 27.8% | 4,713 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Jan 2025First competition: Beijing Winter 2025. A 11.50 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Jiangmen Open 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- Zhuhai Open 2025 · 15 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Hao Wang (王浩) — met in 8 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.