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Tianfu Bao (鲍天夫)

3×3 · top 47.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017BAOT03

Tianfu Bao (鲍天夫) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.96, set at Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2018, puts him in the top 47.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15,591st in China. Across 3 competitions since May 2017, he has put 45 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 7% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Tianfu has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 47.8% of 284,439 all-time
22.96
signature single · Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2018
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×322.9625.97
top 47.8%15,591 / 28,153
2×26.738.37
top 58.2%9,827 / 15,796
Pyraminx13.1420.92
top 73.6%7,351 / 10,224

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

Zhuhai Open 2017: 24.94Zhongshan Open 2017: 23.11Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2018: 22.9622.9624.9429 May 20172 Jun 2018

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 29 May 2017First competition: Zhuhai Open 2017. A 24.94 3×3 single to start from.

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.96 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.