Personal Records

My complete official records (from the WCA database)

22 world records set in 4 events:

• 3x3 Speedsolve: Single 4 times, Average 3 times
• 3x3 One-handed: Single 2 times, Mean 2 times
• 3x3 Blindfolded: 6 times
• 2x2 Speedsolve: Single 3 times, Average 2 times

Of course, I lived in the right place at the right time--close to Caltech in 2004, when Tyson Mao started started organizing official competitions.

Additional 13 AsRs set in 5 events:

• 3x3 Speedsolve: Single 1 time, Average 2 times
• 3x3 One-handed: Single 3 times, Mean 2 times
• 3x3 Blindfolded: 1 time
• 4x4 Speedsolve: Single 2 times, Mean 1 time
• 2x2 Speedsolve: Single 1 time

Former WCA 3x3x3 Speedsolve World Record - 12.11 seconds

I held the World Cubing Association official world record for a 3x3x3 fastest single solve with 12.11 seconds until Jean Pons broke the record at Dutch Open 2005 with his 11.75 seconds. Below is a simulation of that solve, the exact way I solved it at Caltech Spring Tournament on April 3, 2004. Yu can watch a video of the actual attempt at Dan Henage's cubing page.

As you can see, although the solve was technically not 'lucky,' I had a nice F2L and some of the fastest last layer cases.

Former WCA 3x3x3 One-handed World Record - 23.76 seconds

I set this record at Horrace Mann Spring tournament on May 28, 2005 and was also part of the WR mean of 3, 27.56. Ryan Patricio broke both of these with a new world record of 22.05 and mean of 26.73 at Caltech Fall tournament 2005. A big thanks to Ian Winokur, the organizer of Horrace Mann. sVideo of this solve is available on Horace Mann Tournament DVD along with virtually all world/national records broken in that tournament.

I had a rather awkward cross, but everything else turned out amazingly well. OLL was fairly easy, and PLL was one of my fastest one-handed cases.

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