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Taoran Lai (赖韬然)

3×3 · top 18.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016LAIT01

Taoran Lai (赖韬然) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.37, set at Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016, puts him in the top 18.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,293rd in China. Across 2 competitions since August 2016, he has put 18 official solves on the record across two events. His 2×2 best has come down from 7.11 in August 2016 to 5.03, a 29% improvement. Taoran has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 18.7% of 284,439 all-time
13.37
signature single · Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016
18
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.3718.19
top 18.7%7,293 / 28,153
2×25.037.18
top 39.7%6,854 / 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

Shantou Open 2016: 7.11Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 5.035.037.117 Aug 201613 Aug 2016

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.