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Wen-Pin Chen (陳文聘)

3×3 one-handed · top 4.5% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011CHEN16

Wen-Pin Chen (陳文聘) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 13.03, set at Kaohsiung Summer Open 2014, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Chinese Taipei. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since April 2011, he has put 534 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 45.52 in April 2011 to 13.03, a 71% improvement. He has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 4.5% of 73,695 all-time
13.03
signature single · Kaohsiung Summer Open 2014
534
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×3 one-handed13.0315.75
top 4.5%54 / 802
3×39.6312.78
top 6.4%389 / 4,213
2×22.814.29
top 12.1%332 / 1,669
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves36.33
top 23.4%52 / 204
4×453.1854.91
top 28.6%525 / 1,078
Pyraminx10.1216.19
top 53.9%651 / 1,016
Megaminx4:22.76—
early days — 1 solve348 / 362
Clock1:26.98—
early days — 1 solve365 / 366

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

Taiwan Spring Open 2011: 45.52Taipei Open 2011: 22.31Taiwan Winter 2012: 21.96Magic Revenge 2012: 15.58MARU Cube for kid Day 2013: 13.61Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 16.03Kaohsiung Open 2013: 14.96Hsinchu Winter Open 2013: 15.32Maru Cube for Kids Day 2014: 14.81Hsinchu Spring Open 2014: 14.16Mingdao Cube Carnival 2014: 13.44Kaohsiung Summer Open 2014: 13.03Master Challenge 2014: 15.19Hsinchu Winter Open 2014: 14.91All is Well 2015: 13.37Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 24.11All is Well 2016: 23.20Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 19.15Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 19.43HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 15.96Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019: 19.1113.0345.522 Apr 201112 Oct 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.03 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.