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Wanting Cao (曹宛婷)

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016CAOW01

Wanting Cao (曹宛婷) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.49, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts her in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,410th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2016, she has put 135 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 12.03 in May 2016 to 8.49, a 29% improvement. Wanting has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.49
signature single · Asian Championship 2016
135
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.4910.56
top 3.7%1,410 / 28,153
2×22.956.27
top 13.7%2,125 / 15,796
4×447.141:03.20
top 21.0%2,262 / 5,926
Pyraminx8.4414.57
top 40.0%4,318 / 10,224
Skewb14.5523.90
top 76.8%3,954 / 5,004

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

Tangshan Open 2016: 12.03Asian Championship 2016: 8.49Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 9.31Tangshan Open 2017: 9.87Beijing Open 2017: 9.53China Championship 2017: 9.46Shijiazhuang Open 2017: 9.298.4912.038 May 201626 Nov 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as she improves.