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Ying-Tse Chuang (莊英澤)

3×3 one-handed · top 2.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since August 2011 · 2011CHUA02

Ying-Tse Chuang (莊英澤) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.68, set at Taiwan Open 2015, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in Chinese Taipei. Until August 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since August 2011, he has put 619 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.97 in August 2011 to 7.99, a 47% improvement. He has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.6% of 73,695 all-time
11.68
signature single · Taiwan Open 2015
619
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×3 one-handed11.6814.82
top 2.6%33 / 802
3×37.999.10
top 2.8%161 / 4,213
5×559.481:04.51
top 5.3%84 / 639
4×434.5639.24
top 6.3%159 / 1,078
6×63:14.523:19.76
early days — 3 solves203 / 292
3×3 blindfolded2:55.16
top 51.1%77 / 147
2×27.078.35
top 61.0%1,268 / 1,669
7×76:22.48
early days — 1 solve213 / 252

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

Taiwan Summer 2011: 14.97MARU Cube for kid Day 2013: 11.58Kaohsiung Open 2013: 9.61Kaohsiung Winter Open 2014: 9.32Kaohsiung Open 2014: 9.94Hsinchu Spring Open 2015: 9.31Taiwan Open 2015: 7.99Taiwan Championship 2016: 8.59Kaohsiung Summer Open 2017: 8.57Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 9.41Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2017: 8.10Taiwan Championship 2017: 8.58Kaohsiung Spring Open 2018: 8.80Maru X 2018: 8.88WCA Asian Championship 2018: 9.70Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 8.80Taichung Cubing Open 2019: 8.847.9914.9721 Aug 201116 Feb 2019

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 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.68 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.