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Tianji Fang (方天骥)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2011 · 2011FANG03

Tianji Fang (方天骥) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at Quanzhou Side Event 2017, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 122nd in China. Across 7 competitions since August 2011, he has put 159 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.77 in August 2011 to 12.41, a 21% improvement. Tianji has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 12.2% of 12,294 all-time
29 moves
signature single · Quanzhou Side Event 2017
159
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves42.33
early days — 3 solves122 / 1,058
3×312.4113.92
top 15.3%6,017 / 28,153
4×452.1359.65
top 27.3%2,865 / 5,926
2×24.166.17
top 28.5%4,853 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed24.0230.74
top 31.5%3,049 / 5,922
Pyraminx7.4911.16
top 31.9%3,511 / 10,224
Skewb10.2913.99
top 56.7%3,142 / 5,004
Clock18.33
top 59.8%1,357 / 1,843

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

Hangzhou Open 2011: 15.77Hangzhou Autumn 2016: 13.98Wenzhou Open 2017: 14.01Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 12.72Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 15.82Jiujiang Open 2018: 12.41Ningbo Open 2018: 13.3812.4115.8220 Aug 201113 Oct 2018

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.