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Xiaoxin Chen (陈晓心)

3×3 · top 8.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014CHEN29

Xiaoxin Chen (陈晓心) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.48, set at Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019, puts him in the top 8.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,470th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since August 2014, he has put 231 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.54 in August 2014 to 10.48, a 28% improvement. Xiaoxin has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.9% of 284,439 all-time
10.48
signature single · Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019
231
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.4813.35
top 8.9%3,470 / 28,153
4×450.7855.77
top 25.7%2,719 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed23.1128.36
top 29.1%2,831 / 5,922
Skewb8.9313.90
top 47.9%2,749 / 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

Shantou Open 2014: 14.54Guangdong Open 2014: 14.79Guangzhou More Fun Site 2015: 12.79Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 12.90Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 11.71Nanchang Open 2015: 12.39China Championship 2015: 12.97Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 13.02Huizhou Open 2016: 13.29Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 11.82China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 12.32Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 12.92Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 10.48Jieyang Open 2019: 12.71Zhanjiang Open 2019: 12.1610.4814.793 Aug 201418 Aug 2019

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 0.48 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.