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Wenliang Cai (蔡文亮)

3×3 · top 14.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2008 · 2008CAIW01

Wenliang Cai (蔡文亮) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.18, set at Nanjing Open 2009, puts him in the top 14.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,718th in China. Across 2 competitions since August 2008, he has put 56 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.88 in August 2008 to 12.18, an 18% improvement. Wenliang has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 14.5% of 284,439 all-time
12.18
signature single · Nanjing Open 2009
56
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.1815.22
top 14.5%5,718 / 28,153
2×23.506.35
top 20.2%3,317 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed23.4431.17
top 30.0%2,900 / 5,922
4×41:24.061:41.33
top 59.1%4,991 / 5,926

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

Shanghai Open 2008: 14.88Nanjing Open 2009: 12.1812.1814.8830 Aug 20086 Dec 2009

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 0.18 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.