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Terrence Cao

Megaminx · top 0.83% of 34,786 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015CAOT01

Terrence Cao has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 36.34, set at Fullerton Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.83% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 57th in the United States. Until May 2016, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since August 2015, he has put 526 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.80 in August 2015 to 7.16, a 67% improvement. Terrence has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 0.83% of 34,786 all-time
36.34
signature single · Fullerton Winter 2024
526
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Megaminx36.3442.68
top 0.83%57 / 7,841
3×37.169.33
top 1.5%914 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed14.0422.58
top 6.2%854 / 15,683
3×3 blindfolded40.03—
top 6.8%134 / 2,092
4×437.1342.35
top 8.8%1,330 / 19,072
5×51:14.151:21.47
top 14.7%1,130 / 9,401
2×23.264.71
top 17.3%6,774 / 40,951
Skewb5.3411.29
top 20.8%3,320 / 18,907
Square-123.0633.84
top 34.8%2,257 / 6,743

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

Nisei Week 2015: 21.80Irvine Fall 2015: 19.97Caltech Fall 2015: 18.07Nub Open 2016: 17.22Caltech Winter 2016: 18.30Newport Spring 2016: 16.33Newport Fall 2016: 14.392FTI San Diego 2016: 14.98Qualifornia 2017: 14.98CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 12.12Newport Fall 2017: 16.01Thanks for the InFive 2018: 13.35UCSD Winter 2019: 14.48Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 12.96West LA Spring 2019: 11.77CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 10.63San Diego Summer 2019: 11.67Grossmont Fall 2019: 11.37A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 9.10Give Back RPV 2023: 8.66Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 9.24CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.63Santa Ana Summer A 2023: 8.32University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 8.23USC Cubing 2024: 8.40Fullerton Winter 2024: 7.83Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 7.53Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 7.167.1621.8015 Aug 201514 Jul 2024

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-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 6.34 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.