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Tanai Chaikraveephand (ธนัย ชัยกระวีพันธ์)

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2009 · 2009CHAI01

Tanai Chaikraveephand (ธนัย ชัยกระวีพันธ์) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.09, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 140th in Thailand. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 75 competitions since January 2009, he has put 1,294 official solves on the record across 15 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 20.46 in January 2009 to 9.09, a 56% improvement. Tanai has entered 75 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.09
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023
1,294
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 standingThailand
3×39.0912.02
top 5.1%140 / 1,898
Megaminx52.5256.97
top 6.2%19 / 175
2×22.304.57
top 7.0%106 / 949
3×3 blindfolded47.951:21.37
top 9.3%6 / 48
Pyraminx6.0310.42
top 20.2%162 / 534
Clock9.7514.39
top 23.9%77 / 253
4×452.3255.54
top 27.6%157 / 412
4×4 blindfolded5:55.11—
top 28.4%3 / 8
5×51:38.791:58.98
top 34.5%98 / 203
3×3 one-handed28.2937.08
top 42.6%253 / 456
Square-128.2752.56
top 46.2%74 / 149
5×5 blindfolded19:15.00—
early days — 1 solve3 / 4
6×64:23.87—
top 72.9%81 / 94
Skewb13.6017.01
top 73.2%276 / 334
7×77:02.66—
early days — 2 solves78 / 84

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

NSM Thailand Rubik's Cube contest 2009: 20.46Thailand Open 2009: 14.49Bangkok Open 2010: 15.43Thailand Open 2010: 16.15Asian Championship 2010: 14.75TCA Championship 2011: 14.09Thailand Open 2011: 20.61Chonburi Open 2011: 18.34Lampang Open 2011: 13.68Hanoi Open 2011: 14.88Krung Thep Open 2011: 13.80Phitsanulok Open 2011: 12.34Hua Hin Open 2011: 13.68World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 13.69Shanghai Port Open 2011: 16.19Changsha Open 2011: 13.28Bangkok 2012: 13.96Thailand Championship 2012: 15.15Thailand Championship 2013: 14.77Thailand Championship 2014: 13.77Thailand Championship 2015: 11.74Thailand Championship 2016: 11.34Thailand Championship 2017: 12.98WCA Asian Championship 2018: 12.28Thailand Championship 2018: 13.41WCA World Championship 2019: 13.15Thailand 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.80Cambodia Cubing Championship 2019: 12.83Bangkok Cube Day Rainy 2022: 14.66Cube Camp in Kaeng Krachan 2023: 10.74Ratchapruek Cubing Sunday 2023: 11.47Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 9.09Future Park Cubing 2023: 11.17Phitsanulok Returns 2023: 9.97Bangkok Cube Day Winter 2024: 11.74NxN in Hanoi 2024: 11.77Robinson Chonburi Cubing 2024: 9.18Aeon Mall Long Bien 2024: 11.26Welcome to Chiang Mai 2024: 15.97Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 11.51Hanoi Winter 2024: 9.96Vientiane Open 2025: 10.24Vietnam Championship 2025: 12.16MYHM HaNxNoi 2026: 11.90Bravo BKK Cube Open 2026: 11.86Pathum Thani Mini 2026: 11.16Pyraminx in Phitsanulok 2026: 10.14Bangkok Cube Festival 2026: 11.29Robinson Lifestyle Ratchaphruek Open 2026: 11.23Vietnam Championship 2026: 9.919.0920.618 Jan 200914 Aug 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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.09 away.
  • A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 2.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.