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Xinyan Hong (洪心妍)

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014HONG03

Xinyan Hong (洪心妍) has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.77, set at Dongguan Open 2017, puts her in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,817th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since August 2014, she has put 82 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 21.37 in August 2014 to 10.77, a 50% improvement. Xinyan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.77
signature single · Dongguan Open 2017
82
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.7715.30
top 9.8%3,817 / 28,153
2×23.225.00
top 16.8%2,701 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed23.6526.86
top 30.5%2,955 / 5,922
Pyraminx8.8012.51
top 43.1%4,610 / 10,224

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: 21.37Guangdong Open 2014: 19.82Shenzhen Open 2015: 13.81China Championship 2015: 13.76Dongguan Open 2017: 10.7710.7721.373 Aug 201422 Jan 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as she improves.