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Heyang Liu (刘赫阳)

3×3 · top 16.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016LIUH01

Heyang Liu (刘赫阳) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.63, set at Tangshan Open 2017, puts him in the top 16.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,322nd in China. Across 6 competitions since May 2016, he has put 54 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.45 in May 2016 to 12.63, a 28% improvement. Heyang has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.1% of 284,439 all-time
12.63
signature single · Tangshan Open 2017
54
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.6314.55
top 16.1%6,322 / 28,153
2×23.718.27
top 22.8%3,775 / 15,796

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

Tangshan Open 2016: 17.45Asian Championship 2016: 15.98Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 14.71Tangshan Open 2017: 12.63Beijing Open 2017: 14.97Beijing Summer 2018: 14.2612.6317.458 May 201629 Jul 2018

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 0.63 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.