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Weining Lai (赖威宁)

3×3 · top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017LAIW01

Weining Lai (赖威宁) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.63, set at ZHBIT Open 2018, puts him in the top 12.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,987th in China. Across 3 competitions since May 2017, he has put 50 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.32 in May 2017 to 11.63, a 19% improvement. Weining has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.63
signature single · ZHBIT Open 2018
50
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.6313.62
top 12.6%4,987 / 28,153
2×23.857.02
top 24.6%4,130 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed23.6828.83
top 30.6%2,962 / 5,922

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

Zhuhai Open 2017: 14.32Zhongshan Open 2017: 11.75ZHBIT Open 2018: 11.6311.6314.3229 May 201720 May 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.63 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.