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Jixin Ye (叶佶鑫)

Pyraminx · top 5.4% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016YEJI03

Jixin Ye (叶佶鑫) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.48, set at Coconut Island Open 2017, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 646th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since August 2016, he has put 137 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.75 in August 2016 to 10.89, a 39% improvement. Jixin has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 5.4% of 129,321 all-time
3.48
signature single · Coconut Island Open 2017
137
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx3.488.12
top 5.4%646 / 10,224
3×310.8913.28
top 10.1%3,968 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed16.9021.31
top 12.3%1,204 / 5,922
2×22.996.00
top 14.1%2,207 / 15,796
4×446.2653.31
top 19.9%2,150 / 5,926
Skewb5.797.87
top 24.2%1,493 / 5,004
3×3 blindfolded2:03.50
top 34.6%492 / 1,183
Square-148.19
early days — 1 solve1,198 / 1,362

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

Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 17.75Coconut Island Open 2017: 13.68Yangjiang Open 2018: 10.89Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 11.1510.8917.7513 Aug 20166 Apr 2018

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-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.