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Binwei Liu (刘玢炜)

3×3 · top 16.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016LIUB01

Binwei Liu (刘玢炜) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.77, set at Shanghai Open 2019, puts him in the top 16.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,520th in China. Across 19 competitions since March 2016, he has put 363 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.21 in March 2016 to 12.77, a 34% improvement. Binwei has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.6% of 284,439 all-time
12.77
signature single · Shanghai Open 2019
363
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.7714.50
top 16.6%6,520 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed21.8526.35
top 25.6%2,513 / 5,922
4×450.9257.56
top 25.8%2,735 / 5,926
2×24.145.88
top 28.3%4,802 / 15,796
Pyraminx7.6410.16
top 33.2%3,647 / 10,224
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves44.00
top 37.3%409 / 1,058
5×51:46.581:51.62
top 40.3%1,800 / 2,816
Skewb10.0614.13
top 55.3%3,068 / 5,004
3×3 blindfolded3:38.24
early days — 1 solve872 / 1,183
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 14:06
early days — 1 solve187 / 278
Clock23.8230.99
top 74.3%1,575 / 1,843
7×77:59.88
early days — 1 solve1,221 / 1,261

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

Shanghai Spring 2016: 19.21Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 18.74Suzhou Open 2016: 15.88Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 15.14Hangzhou Autumn 2016: 16.48Shanghai Spring 2017: 14.20Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 17.81Shanghai Winter 2018: 14.23Nanjing Spring 2018: 14.72Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 15.08SJTU Open 2018: 16.00Wuxi Autumn 2018: 16.45SJTU Winter Open 2018: 14.46Hefei Spring 2019: 12.89Suzhou Open 2019: 13.19Shanghai Open 2019: 12.77Wuxi Winter 2019: 13.1112.7719.2119 Mar 20168 Dec 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 1.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.