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Yiwen Tan (谭椅文)

4×4 · top 23.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016TANY01

Yiwen Tan (谭椅文) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 48.87, set at Xi'an New Year 2018, puts him in the top 23.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,491st in China. Across 7 competitions since July 2016, he has put 86 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.80 in July 2016 to 15.39, a 47% improvement. Yiwen has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 23.3% of 83,917 all-time
48.87
signature single · Xi'an New Year 2018
86
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×448.871:02.69
top 23.3%2,491 / 5,926
2×23.835.36
top 24.3%4,070 / 15,796
3×315.3918.91
top 25.7%9,653 / 28,153
Pyraminx8.0711.61
top 36.8%3,992 / 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

Chongqing Open 2016: 28.80Xi'an Open 2016: 24.01China Championship 2017: 20.94Xi'an New Year 2018: 17.93Baoji Open 2018: 16.75Baoji Open 2019: 15.39Xi'an New Year 2020: 17.8515.3928.8016 Jul 20161 Jan 2020

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 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 8.87 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.