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Boyang Ni (倪博阳)

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015NIBO01

Boyang Ni (倪博阳) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.42, set at China Championship 2017, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,272nd in China. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since April 2015, he has put 218 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.88 in April 2015 to 9.42, a 41% improvement. Boyang has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.42
signature single · China Championship 2017
218
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.4212.68
top 5.9%2,272 / 28,153
2×23.214.11
top 16.7%2,684 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed18.7522.11
top 17.1%1,693 / 5,922
4×459.531:08.77
top 36.0%3,548 / 5,926
Pyraminx8.3114.42
top 38.9%4,209 / 10,224
Skewb10.5213.43
top 58.2%3,207 / 5,004

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 Fudan Spring 2015: 15.88Nanjing Spring 2015: 15.08Shanghai Summer Open 2015: 11.93Zhenjiang Open 2015: 11.59Shanghai Spring 2016: 12.13Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 11.22Suzhou Open 2016: 12.40Yangzhou Open 2016: 11.14China Championship 2017: 9.429.4215.8825 Apr 201528 Jul 2017

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 1.42 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.