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Jinming Li (李金洺)

2×2 · top 8.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014LIJI01

Jinming Li (李金洺) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.45, set at Asian Championship 2016, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,240th in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since February 2014, he has put 278 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.61 in August 2015 to 2.45, a 32% improvement. Jinming has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 8.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.45
signature single · Asian Championship 2016
278
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×22.453.45
top 8.4%1,240 / 15,796
3×311.5212.45
top 12.2%4,822 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed17.5622.96
top 14.0%1,386 / 5,922
4×443.6049.94
top 16.5%1,786 / 5,926
Skewb4.856.46
top 17.0%1,053 / 5,004
Pyraminx5.817.74
top 18.6%2,141 / 10,224
5×51:20.941:27.14
top 19.9%942 / 2,816
Square-121.4832.73
top 31.3%529 / 1,362
Megaminx2:09.74
top 51.1%1,329 / 1,678
6×63:46.46
early days — 1 solve1,090 / 1,349
7×75:47.27
early days — 1 solve1,051 / 1,261
3×3 Fewest Moves56 moves
early days — 2 solves1,019 / 1,058

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

Xining Summer Open 2015: 3.61Xining Summer Open 2016: 3.43Asian Championship 2016: 2.45Lanzhou Spring 2017: 2.99China Championship 2017: 2.582.453.618 Aug 201528 Jul 2017

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.