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Tianping Ding (丁天平)

Pyraminx · top 3.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016DING05

Tianping Ding (丁天平) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.94, set at Nanjing Spring 2017, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 405th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since July 2016, he has put 689 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.49 in July 2016 to 12.27, a 34% improvement. Tianping has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.4% of 129,321 all-time
2.94
signature single · Nanjing Spring 2017
689
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx2.946.98
top 3.4%405 / 10,224
Clock6.237.33
top 8.0%164 / 1,843
Skewb3.895.06
top 10.1%605 / 5,004
2×22.784.71
top 11.8%1,821 / 15,796
3×312.2714.70
top 14.8%5,839 / 28,153
4×445.3451.36
top 18.7%2,035 / 5,926
3×3 blindfolded1:21.802:22.51
top 20.2%278 / 1,183
5×51:26.961:38.11
top 24.9%1,164 / 2,816
Megaminx1:25.491:33.52
top 25.3%778 / 1,678
3×3 one-handed21.8828.62
top 25.7%2,524 / 5,922
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 9 cubes · 50:09—
top 27.4%72 / 278
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves36.33
top 30.0%322 / 1,058
4×4 blindfolded6:09.15—
early days — 3 solves57 / 149
7×74:22.424:34.67
top 38.5%737 / 1,261
Square-125.5730.26
top 40.3%686 / 1,362
6×63:13.043:25.87
top 47.3%913 / 1,349
5×5 blindfolded22:57.00—
early days — 1 solve72 / 95

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

Suzhou Open 2016: 18.49Yangzhou Open 2016: 16.58Nanjing Autumn 2016: 14.71Zhenjiang Open 2016: 16.14Shanghai Spring 2017: 14.15Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 17.03Changshu Open 2017: 16.87Wuxi Open 2017: 15.33Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 15.94Yangzhou Open 2017: 13.68Suzhou Open 2017: 14.45Hefei Open 2017: 15.40Nanjing Autumn 2017: 14.57WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 14.79Zhenjiang Open 2017: 14.69Jinhua New Year's Day 2018: 15.58Shanghai Winter 2018: 14.11Hangzhou Spring 2018: 12.74Beijing Open 2018: 14.66Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018: 14.44Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 12.27Suzhou Open 2018: 14.23China Championship 2018: 12.59Nanjing Autumn 2018: 12.77SJTU Winter Open 2018: 12.8712.2718.492 Jul 201630 Dec 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.94 away.
  • A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.