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Xin Tang (唐薪)

3×3 blindfolded · top 3.2% of 12,178 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016TANG06

Xin Tang (唐薪) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 26.04, set at Quanzhou Open 2019, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 51st in China. Until June 2013, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since May 2016, he has put 123 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 blindfolded best has come down from 1:08.08 in August 2016 to 26.04, a 62% improvement. Xin has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 3.2% of 12,178 all-time
26.04
signature single · Quanzhou Open 2019
123
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 blindfolded26.0436.22
top 3.2%51 / 1,183
2×22.123.71
top 5.6%787 / 15,796
3×310.8012.37
top 9.9%3,855 / 28,153
4×4 blindfolded8:24.96—
early days — 1 solve85 / 149
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 7:48—
early days — 1 solve162 / 278

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

Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 1:08.08Asian Championship 2016: 50.86TKK Open 2016: 1:39.34Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 53.96Big 'n Blind 2016: 1:12.43Quanzhou Open 2016: 46.24Changsha Xiangmo 2017: 41.66Xiamen Open 2017: 33.08Fuzhou Open 2017: 41.75Quanzhou Open 2017: 44.51Longyan Summer Open 2017: 42.65China Championship 2017: 36.92Yangzhou Open 2017: 38.97China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 26.46Xiamen Autumn 2017: 36.99Fuzhou Autumn 2017: 33.64TKK Open 2017: 27.03Harbin Open 2018: 35.59Zhangzhou Open 2018: 32.11Longyan Open 2018: 28.61Jieyang Open 2018: 27.01WCA Asian Championship 2018: 31.47Xiamen Open 2018: 29.70Quanzhou Open 2019: 26.04Xiamen Autumn 2019: 28.4526.041:39.3413 Aug 20166 Oct 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3 blindfolded. 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-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.