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Yu-Ru Chen (陳禹儒)

2×2 · top 3.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016CHEY11

Yu-Ru Chen (陳禹儒) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.74, set at Taiwan Championship 2017, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 79th in Chinese Taipei. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since October 2016, he has put 211 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.39 in October 2016 to 11.88, a 17% improvement. He has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.74
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2017
211
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
2×21.743.63
top 3.3%79 / 1,669
3×311.8814.69
top 13.5%809 / 4,213
Pyraminx5.9910.14
top 19.9%301 / 1,016
4×452.6658.82
top 28.0%519 / 1,078
Skewb7.139.73
top 34.7%327 / 699
3×3 one-handed31.51
early days — 2 solves579 / 802
Square-133.4840.34
top 56.0%213 / 323

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 Championship 2016: 14.39Kaohsiung Summer Open 2017: 13.23Maru Cube Day 2017: 14.16Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 13.40Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2017: 12.21Taiwan Championship 2017: 12.70Maru X 2018: 11.8811.8814.3929 Oct 201630 Jun 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.