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Tim Wong

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2007 · 2007WONG02

Tim Wong has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 19 moves, set at Irvine Fall 2015, puts him in the top 0.45% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the United States. Across 58 competitions since May 2007, he has put 2,402 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.12 in May 2007 to 7.87, a 79% improvement. Tim has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.45% of 12,294 all-time
19 moves
signature single · Irvine Fall 2015
2,402
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves30.67
top 0.45%15 / 2,040
4×427.8034.53
top 1.7%284 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed11.4516.95
top 2.3%375 / 15,683
3×37.879.15
top 2.6%1,484 / 59,724
2×21.794.11
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
3×3 Multi-Blind23 of 25 cubes · 56:53—
top 4.3%35 / 731
3×3 blindfolded32.4439.54
top 4.8%96 / 2,092
6×61:51.182:06.54
top 7.6%265 / 4,196
5×51:03.871:06.87
top 7.7%606 / 9,401
7×73:00.773:08.79
top 10.8%293 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded4:41.73—
top 19.8%76 / 440
Pyraminx6.247.14
top 21.8%5,830 / 28,708
Clock9.8811.82
top 24.5%1,883 / 8,927
Megaminx1:28.451:36.85
top 27.2%1,877 / 7,841
Skewb6.5910.83
top 30.4%5,011 / 18,907
5×5 blindfolded14:11.00—
early days — 2 solves76 / 218
Square-125.5837.02
top 40.4%2,620 / 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

Caltech Discovery Spring competition 2007: 38.12Caltech Winter 2012: 19.96Caltech Spring 2012: 12.88Diamond Bar Open 2012: 13.18Antelope Valley Winter 2013: 10.78Caltech Winter Open 2013: 10.56Diamond Bar Spring Open 2013: 10.02Caltech Spring Open 2013: 10.80San Diego Summer Splash 2013: 11.18World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.26Nisei Week 2013: 10.61CCFC Fall 2013: 9.46Harvard Fall 2013: 11.22Yale Fall 2013: 10.52Lexington Fall 2013: 9.09Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 8.87CCFC Winter 2014: 8.93Princeton Winter 2014: 9.43Williams Winter 2014: 9.44Lexington Spring 2014: 9.10Caltech Spring Open 2014: 8.71San Diego Summer Splash 2014: 9.50BASC 3: Flagj Day 2014: 8.48Newport Cube Day 2014: 9.09US Nationals 2014: 9.46Nisei Week 2014: 10.33GCC Fall 2014: 8.71Harvard Fall 2014: 9.46Lexington Fall 2014: 9.04MIT Fall 2014: 9.78Williams Winter 2015: 8.75Yale Spring 2015: 8.53Lexington Spring 2015: 9.20MIT Spring 2015: 8.63San Diego Summer Splash 2015: 8.88BASC 6 2015: 9.18SoCal Supercomp 2015: 8.82US Nationals 2015: 9.37Norwich Summer 2015: 8.92Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2015: 8.67Irvine Fall 2015: 8.58Lexington Fall 2015: 8.57Northeastern Fall 2015: 8.65MIT Fall 2015: 8.34Sharon Winter 2016: 7.87Princeton Winter 2016: 8.30Weston Spring 2016: 9.04Berkeley Spring 2016: 8.73MIT Spring 2016: 8.62Northeastern Spring 2016: 9.00US Nationals 2016: 8.88Providence Fall 2019: 8.60Cubing with the Viking 2020: 8.017.8738.125 May 200722 Feb 2020

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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.80 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.