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Yi-An Chen (陳奕安)

3×3 one-handed · top 8.5% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019CHEY04

Yi-An Chen (陳奕安) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 15.19, set at Maru Cube Day 2019, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 123rd in Chinese Taipei. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2019, he has put 124 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. He has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 8.5% of 73,695 all-time
15.19
signature single · Maru Cube Day 2019
124
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×3 one-handed15.1922.87
top 8.5%123 / 802
3×311.1513.77
top 10.9%662 / 4,213
Megaminx1:03.091:07.05
top 11.6%62 / 362
Skewb4.718.57
top 16.0%168 / 699
2×24.154.95
top 28.4%692 / 1,669
4×455.421:00.47
top 31.2%547 / 1,078
Pyraminx7.419.09
top 31.2%433 / 1,016
Square-130.91
top 51.0%195 / 323
Clock21.70
early days — 1 solve285 / 366

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

Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 11.29Maru Cube Day 2019: 11.15Maru Cube Day 2022: 12.5711.1512.5726 May 20193 Sep 2022

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-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.