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Taoran Chen (陈陶然)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017CHET03

Taoran Chen (陈陶然) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.92, set at Nanning Open 2019, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 444th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since November 2017, he has put 993 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.91 in November 2017 to 6.92, a 57% improvement. Taoran has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.92
signature single · Nanning Open 2019
993
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.929.25
top 1.2%444 / 28,153
2×21.632.43
top 2.7%328 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed12.2516.69
top 3.3%292 / 5,922
Pyraminx3.955.79
top 7.4%876 / 10,224
Skewb3.497.82
top 7.7%439 / 5,004
4×441.4448.84
top 13.8%1,500 / 5,926
5×52:03.21—
early days — 2 solves2,121 / 2,816

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

Zhongshan Open 2017: 15.91WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 18.55Dongguan Open 2018: 12.93GDSY Open 2018: 11.27Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 13.62Guangdong Open 2018: 12.12Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2018: 10.91Qianjiang Summer Open 2018: 12.92Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2018: 9.72China Championship 2018: 10.94Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 10.72Dongguan Open 2019: 10.08Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 10.17GDSY Open 2019: 8.56Dongguan Spring 2019: 10.59Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 7.86China Championship 2019: 9.19Dongguan Summer 2019: 8.45Zhanjiang Open 2019: 9.10Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.79Shenzhen Open 2019: 8.44Xiamen Autumn 2019: 8.13Nanning Open 2019: 6.92Jieyang Winter 2020: 7.13Guangzhou Good Morning 2020: 10.00Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021: 8.25Shenzhen Nanshan Morning 2021: 8.556.9218.554 Nov 201728 Mar 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.