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Jiawei Niu (牛佳伟)

3×3 · top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016NIUJ01

Jiawei Niu (牛佳伟) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.41, set at Taiyuan Winter Open 2016, puts him in the top 15.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,017th in China. Across 3 competitions since June 2016, he has put 66 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Jiawei has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.41
signature single · Taiyuan Winter Open 2016
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.4113.85
top 15.3%6,017 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed19.5124.29
top 19.2%1,927 / 5,922
4×453.6858.20
top 29.2%3,008 / 5,926
2×24.897.39
top 37.9%6,548 / 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

Taiyuan Open 2016: 12.98Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 12.41Taiyuan Open 2017: 12.4412.4112.985 Jun 20167 May 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 4.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.