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Jiayu Li (李佳羽)

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015LIJI06

Jiayu Li (李佳羽) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.88, set at Shenzhen Nanshan 2018, puts her in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,755th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2015, she has put 150 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.63 in October 2015 to 8.88, a 55% improvement. Jiayu has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.88
signature single · Shenzhen Nanshan 2018
150
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.8810.02
top 4.6%1,755 / 28,153
4×444.0951.79
top 17.2%1,852 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed19.1724.71
top 18.3%1,821 / 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

China Championship 2015: 19.63Shenzhen New Year 2016: 11.79Shenzhen New Year 2017: 9.81Shenzhen Open 2017: 10.05Shenzhen Open 2018: 10.15Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 8.88Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 9.96GDSY Open 2019: 10.16Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 8.88Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 9.72Shenzhen Open 2019: 9.958.8819.632 Oct 201521 Sep 2019

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 4.09 away.

Targets move as she improves.