People · China
Jianxing Gao (高建兴)
Pyraminx · top 4.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017GAOJ02
Jianxing Gao (高建兴) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.11, set at Lanzhou Autumn 2018, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 484th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since August 2017, he has put 271 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.26 in August 2017 to 11.89, a 22% improvement. Jianxing has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.11 | 6.45 | top 4.0% | 484 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 2.27 | 3.64 | top 6.8% | 959 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 | 11.89 | 13.95 | top 13.5% | 5,326 / 28,153 | |
| Skewb | 4.67 | 8.69 | top 15.7% | 974 / 5,004 | |
| 4×4 | 55.76 | 1:03.31 | top 31.6% | 3,195 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 35.19 | 42.78 | top 57.6% | 4,754 / 5,922 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 Apr 2019Three personal bests in one day at Anyang Open 2019.
- 5 Aug 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.06 at Ningxia Open 2018.
- 5 Aug 2017First competition: Inner Mongolia Summer 2017. A 15.26 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Ulanqab Small Cubes 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ordos Winter 2020 · 11 Jan 2020
- Ningxia Open 2019 · 18 Aug 2019
- Lanzhou Spring 2019 · 11 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Anyang Open 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Inner Mongolia Winter 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Taiyuan Winter 2018 · 22 Dec 2018
- Lanzhou Autumn 2018 · 14 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- China Championship 2018 · 2 Oct 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Ningxia Open 2018 · 5 Aug 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Inner Mongolia Summer 2017 · 5 Aug 2017
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.
- Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳) — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Yongxiang Guo (郭永祥) — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Jiayu Fan (范家瑜) — met in 28 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
Targets move as he improves.