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Thanapon Ponchai (ธนพล พลชัย)

3×3 · top 0.81% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017PONC04

Thanapon Ponchai (ธนพล พลชัย) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.45, set at Thailand Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.81% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Thailand. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since July 2017, he has put 631 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.62 in July 2017 to 6.45, a 77% improvement. Thanapon has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.81% of 284,439 all-time
6.45
signature single · Thailand Championship 2024
631
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingThailand
3×36.458.12
top 0.81%27 / 1,898
3×3 one-handed10.8815.32
top 1.7%18 / 456
Skewb2.183.88
top 1.9%10 / 334
Pyraminx3.194.96
top 4.3%37 / 534
Clock6.068.04
top 7.5%34 / 253
2×22.653.26
top 10.4%140 / 949
4×441.0946.99
top 13.4%83 / 412
5×51:19.271:23.31
top 18.5%55 / 203
Megaminx1:32.511:39.91
top 29.8%76 / 175
Square-135.6556.37
top 59.5%92 / 149

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

Thailand Championship 2017: 27.62Bangkok Cube Day Summer 2018: 12.71Thailand Championship 2018: 13.16Bangkok Open 2019: 9.59Thailand 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.45Thailand Championship 2019: 9.43Bangkok Cube Day Rainy 2022: 7.86Bangkok Cube Fest 2022: 8.32Bangkok Cube Day Winter 2023: 8.23Bangkok Cube Day Rainy 2023: 7.24Thailand Championship 2023: 7.34Phitsanulok Returns 2023: 6.97Bangkok Cube Day Winter 2024: 7.22Robinson Chonburi Cubing 2024: 7.41Thailand Championship 2024: 6.456.4527.6215 Jul 201711 Oct 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.