Progress against the field
Between Gainful Anaheim 2024 and Las Vegas 2026, Raymond Chen lost 7:35 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:09 quicker, so 0:26 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 572 days between Gainful Anaheim 2024 and Anaheim 2025, cost 14:24 on the field.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 5 events
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Salt Lake City19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:49 PB91/458Beat 80%
↑ 233 days after Phoenix 2026, with Andrew Hou 0:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:59 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:36 faster for everyone, so 0:37 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair0:59 faster -
Las Vegas20 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:25:14588/1739Beat 66%
↑ 22 days after Phoenix 2026 7:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:23 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:46 faster for everyone: 7:09 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This athlete5:23 slower -
Phoenix29 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:48132/408Beat 68%
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Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:51 PB289/947Beat 70%
↑ 48 days after Anaheim 2025 13:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:35 faster for everyone, so 13:58 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete18:33 faster -
Anaheim12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:38:241005/1835Beat 45%
↑ 572 days after Gainful Anaheim 2024 14:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:36 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:48 faster for everyone: 14:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This athlete13:36 slower -
Anaheim12 Dec 2025Relay · Men1:22:3334/74Beat 54%
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Gainful Anaheim19 May 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:48206/623Beat 67%