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Taiyu Wan (万泰宇)

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019WANT01

Taiyu Wan (万泰宇) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.19, set at Wuhan Open 2021, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,153rd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since April 2019, he has put 108 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.06 in April 2019 to 8.19, a 71% improvement. Taiyu has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.19
signature single · Wuhan Open 2021
108
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.199.17
top 3.1%1,153 / 28,153
Skewb3.877.82
top 10.0%593 / 5,004
4×442.7745.88
top 15.5%1,674 / 5,926
2×23.604.43
top 21.4%3,534 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed20.5222.12
top 21.9%2,180 / 5,922
Pyraminx7.249.42
top 29.8%3,286 / 10,224
Clock11.6912.94
top 33.5%794 / 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

Nanchang Open 2019: 28.06Nanchang Winter 2019: 14.97Nanchang Good Morning 2021: 10.40Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 8.22Wuhan Open 2021: 8.198.1928.0620 Apr 20195 Jun 2021

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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.