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Tongming Shi (石童鸣)

3×3 · top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017SHIT02

Tongming Shi (石童鸣) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.12, set at Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,093rd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2017, he has put 536 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.24 in October 2017 to 8.12, a 53% improvement. Tongming has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.12
signature single · Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021
536
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.129.01
top 3.0%1,093 / 28,153
Pyraminx3.005.08
top 3.6%435 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed12.8515.15
top 4.2%370 / 5,922
2×21.973.05
top 4.5%617 / 15,796
4×433.4240.51
top 5.3%523 / 5,926
5×51:14.111:20.08
top 14.6%712 / 2,816
7×73:56.754:06.84
top 29.4%579 / 1,261
Skewb7.2811.14
top 35.8%2,166 / 5,004
3×3 blindfolded2:22.38
top 40.9%591 / 1,183
Clock16.0320.76
top 52.0%1,219 / 1,843
6×63:53.96
early days — 1 solve1,117 / 1,349

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

Yunnan Open 2017: 17.24Yunnan Open 2018: 9.68Chongqing Open 2018: 9.41GDSY Open 2019: 9.73Guiyang Open 2019: 9.64Kunming Open 2019: 9.08Hefei Summer 2019: 8.42China Championship 2019: 9.24Yunnan Open 2019: 8.77Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021: 8.12Chengdu Flash Cube Open 2023: 8.488.1217.247 Oct 201715 Oct 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.