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Ernest Li

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021LIER01

Ernest Li has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.71, set at Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 616th in Australia. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since November 2021, he has put 38 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 27% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Ernest has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.71
signature single · Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021
38
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.7111.32
top 6.7%616 / 11,709
4×452.411:05.69
top 27.7%720 / 3,051
2×25.548.44
top 45.8%3,604 / 8,567

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

Puzzling Pinjarra 2021: 10.48Perth 10 Year Anniversary 2021: 9.719.7110.4821 Nov 202111 Dec 2021

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 1.71 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.