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Chau-Yi Shiu (許朝屹)

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016SHIU01

Chau-Yi Shiu (許朝屹) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.58, set at Lanyang Open 2019, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in Chinese Taipei. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since July 2016, he has put 181 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.15 in July 2016 to 10.58, a 25% improvement. He has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.58
signature single · Lanyang Open 2019
181
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.5812.33
top 9.2%553 / 4,213
4×438.2842.35
top 10.1%235 / 1,078
5×51:11.601:21.57
top 12.8%187 / 639
7×73:17.923:28.01
early days — 3 solves78 / 252
6×62:42.662:50.97
top 32.2%158 / 292
2×26.167.04
top 52.5%1,142 / 1,669

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

Happy Cubing Taiwan 2016: 14.15Taiwan Championship 2016: 15.31Taipei Open 2017: 14.68Lanyang Open 2017: 13.41Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 12.94Cubing Tainan 2018: 11.67Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 11.69Lanyang Open 2019: 10.58Taiwan Championship 2022: 10.6910.5815.3124 Jul 201616 Dec 2022

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.