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Tairan Zhong (钟泰然)

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013ZHON04

Tairan Zhong (钟泰然) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.00, set at China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 468th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since July 2013, he has put 1,549 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.99 in July 2013 to 7.00, a 42% improvement. Tairan has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.00
signature single · China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017
1,549
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.008.79
top 1.3%468 / 28,153
Clock3.644.53
top 1.7%22 / 1,843
5×556.331:05.20
top 3.9%180 / 2,816
Pyraminx3.719.78
top 6.3%745 / 10,224
4×435.6942.87
top 7.4%743 / 5,926
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves35.00
top 9.9%98 / 1,058
3×3 one-handed16.7020.94
top 11.8%1,161 / 5,922
2×23.474.90
top 19.8%3,252 / 15,796
6×62:20.952:36.09
top 21.0%470 / 1,349
Megaminx1:21.401:34.05
top 22.8%690 / 1,678
Skewb6.2210.44
top 27.5%1,704 / 5,004
7×74:17.614:35.15
top 36.8%707 / 1,261
Square-124.5130.12
top 38.1%648 / 1,362

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

Guangzhou CCSA Championship 2013: 11.99Xiamen Open 2013: 13.05Guangdong Open 2013: 11.80Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 11.10Guangzhou Cube Splashing Day 2014: 9.94Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014: 10.68Huizhou Open 2014: 9.36Guangdong Open 2014: 8.83Nanchang Open 2015: 10.81Huizhou Open 2015: 8.17Shantou Open 2015: 8.62China Championship 2015: 8.80Shenzhen New Year 2016: 8.61Huizhou Open 2016: 8.59Hefei Open 2016: 10.11Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 9.74Arnold Classic Asia 2016: 9.04Asian Championship 2016: 8.91Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 10.05Shenzhen New Year 2017: 8.95Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 9.20Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 8.92Nanchang Spring 2017: 8.80Guangzhou SCUT 2017: 8.70Nanjing Spring 2017: 8.05World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.23China Championship 2017: 9.37Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 8.28Shantou Open 2017: 9.36Hong Kong Open 2017: 8.65China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 7.00Zhanjiang Open 2017: 7.52Shanghai Winter 2018: 7.48Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 8.90Guangdong Open 2018: 8.83Shenzhen Open 2018: 8.74WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.68Zhanjiang Open 2018: 7.52China Championship 2018: 9.26Maoming Open 2018: 7.83SJTU Winter Open 2018: 9.07Hong Kong Cube Day 2019: 8.74Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 8.49GDSY Open 2019: 8.83Hangzhou Open 2019: 8.78WCA World Championship 2019: 7.32China Championship 2019: 8.60Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 7.37Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 7.507.0013.0522 Jul 201313 Dec 2020

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.