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Yewei Chen

3×3 · top 13.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022CHEN33

Yewei Chen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.91, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022, puts him in the top 13.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,289th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since May 2022, he has put 130 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.01 in May 2022 to 11.91, a 15% improvement. Yewei has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.91
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022
130
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.9113.91
top 13.6%7,289 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.597.34
top 17.0%4,520 / 28,708
4×445.1956.31
top 18.5%2,808 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.1229.95
top 26.4%3,410 / 15,683
2×24.554.95
top 33.6%13,363 / 40,951
5×51:44.071:59.05
top 38.4%3,076 / 9,401
Skewb11.5015.50
top 63.5%11,779 / 18,907
Megaminx2:53.93
early days — 2 solves5,560 / 7,841
Square-150.17
early days — 1 solve5,046 / 6,743

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

Country Roads Huntington 2022: 14.01NxNaperville 2022: 13.46CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 11.91Ohio Valley Open 2022: 12.04Fort Wayne Favorites 2023: 12.3511.9114.0128 May 20223 Sep 2023

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 1.91 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.