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Wenchen Ding (丁文晨)

3×3 · top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010DING01

Wenchen Ding (丁文晨) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.83, set at Nanjing Winter 2012, puts him in the top 20.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,876th in China. Across 6 competitions since January 2010, he has put 99 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 8% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.77 in January 2010 to 13.83, a 48% improvement. Wenchen has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.83
signature single · Nanjing Winter 2012
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.8315.96
top 20.4%7,876 / 28,153
4×41:06.271:12.13
top 43.2%4,086 / 5,926
2×26.508.97
top 55.9%9,472 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed34.9440.49
top 57.2%4,725 / 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

Changchun Open 2010: 26.77Nanjing Spring 2011: 14.66Nanjing Spring 2012: 14.22Nanjing Winter 2012: 13.83Nanjing Normal University 2013: 15.72Wuxi Open 2013: 15.2213.8326.772 Jan 201017 Aug 2013

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 6.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.