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Yifan Zhuang (庄一凡)

3×3 blindfolded · top 7.7% of 12,178 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017ZHUA02

Yifan Zhuang (庄一凡) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 43.05, set at Hangzhou Open 2018, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 125th in China. Until August 2009, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2017, he has put 90 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.62 in August 2017 to 13.57, a 60% improvement. Yifan has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 7.7% of 12,178 all-time
43.05
signature single · Hangzhou Open 2018
90
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 blindfolded43.052:32.85
top 7.7%125 / 1,183
3×313.5715.59
top 19.5%7,556 / 28,153
2×23.905.05
top 25.2%4,238 / 15,796
Pyraminx6.7611.46
top 25.9%2,914 / 10,224
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 4 cubes · 8:12
early days — 1 solve115 / 278
4×4 blindfolded8:11.59
early days — 1 solve81 / 149

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

Yangzhou Open 2017: 33.62Nanjing Spring 2018: 22.76Lishui University Open 2018: 16.28Hangzhou Open 2018: 13.5713.5733.6220 Aug 201710 Nov 2018

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-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 3.05 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.