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Jiayi Li (李嘉逸)

2×2 · top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018LIJI08

Jiayi Li (李嘉逸) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.26, set at GDSY Open 2019, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 141st in China. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2018, he has put 303 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.44 in March 2018 to 1.26, a 63% improvement. Jiayi has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.2% of 186,767 all-time
1.26
signature single · GDSY Open 2019
303
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×21.262.60
top 1.2%141 / 15,796
Skewb2.605.38
top 3.3%174 / 5,004
Pyraminx4.496.70
top 10.2%1,209 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed16.0221.34
top 10.3%1,003 / 5,922
3×311.0013.15
top 10.5%4,100 / 28,153
4×440.7444.19
top 13.0%1,406 / 5,926
5×51:43.291:47.20
top 37.8%1,704 / 2,816
6×63:13.833:29.72
early days — 3 solves919 / 1,349
Clock18.9123.65
top 61.5%1,389 / 1,843

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

GDSY Open 2018: 3.44Guangdong Open 2018: 2.50Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018: 1.92China Championship 2018: 2.41GDSY Open 2019: 1.26Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 1.95China Championship 2019: 1.741.263.4424 Mar 201826 Jul 2019

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.