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Yizhou Tan (谭奕州)

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019TANY06

Yizhou Tan (谭奕州) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.65, set at China Championship 2019, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,535th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since May 2019, he has put 69 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 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Yizhou has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.65
signature single · China Championship 2019
69
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.6510.05
top 4.1%1,535 / 28,153
2×22.694.40
top 10.8%1,655 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed17.4422.11
top 13.7%1,363 / 5,922
4×441.6746.37
top 14.1%1,525 / 5,926

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

Kunming Open 2019: 9.31China Championship 2019: 8.658.659.3126 May 201926 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.