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Jie-Yu Xie (謝傑宇)

Pyraminx · top 0.07% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019XIEJ05

Jie-Yu Xie (謝傑宇) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.08, set at Zhongshan Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.07% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Chinese Taipei. Until June 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since December 2019, he has put 1,501 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 8.29 in December 2020 to 1.08, an 87% improvement. He has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.07% of 129,321 all-time
1.08
signature single · Zhongshan Open 2024
1,501
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Pyraminx1.082.11
top 0.07%2 / 1,016
3×36.499.14
top 0.84%43 / 4,213
2×21.163.02
top 0.92%20 / 1,669
4×429.5335.49
top 2.6%73 / 1,078
Skewb2.623.79
top 3.3%29 / 699
5×557.981:02.48
top 4.5%72 / 639
Clock5.627.22
top 6.0%27 / 366
3×3 one-handed14.0916.16
top 6.3%79 / 802
6×61:50.951:54.54
top 7.5%43 / 292
7×72:50.393:00.69
top 8.0%39 / 252
Square-113.4318.71
top 12.8%59 / 323
Megaminx1:05.711:11.83
top 13.1%71 / 362
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves43.33
top 30.0%66 / 204

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

Taiwan Championship 2020: 8.29Taiwan Open 2022: 7.07Kaohsiung Winter Open 2022: 5.94Chiayi Open 2022: 4.30Maru Cube Day 2022: 4.11Yunlin Winter Open 2022: 3.69Taiwan Championship 2022: 4.27Taichung Open 2023: 3.13CK Cubing Party 2023: 2.68Maru Cube Day 2023: 2.20Pingtung Summer Open 2023: 2.63Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 2.62Taiwan Championship 2023: 2.59Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 2.20Taichung Open 2024: 1.89Zhongshan Open 2024: 1.08Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 1.75Taipei Summer Open 2024: 1.99Taiwan Anti-NxNxN 2024: 1.89Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 2.10Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 2.03Taiwan Championship 2024: 1.82Taiwan New Year Countdown 2024: 1.61Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 1.84Taipei Summer Open 2025: 1.57Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 1.63Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 1.73Taiwan Championship 2025: 1.61Taipei Cube Open 2026: 1.78Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 1.76Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 2.071.088.2918 Dec 202025 Jul 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.