People · Chinese Taipei
Jun-Yu Liao (廖俊語)
Pyraminx · top 0.72% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2020 · 2020LIAO02
Jun-Yu Liao (廖俊語) has been competing for 6 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.73, set at Guangzhou Special 2025, puts him in the top 0.72% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Chinese Taipei. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since November 2020, he has put 263 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.43 in November 2020 to 8.48, a 37% improvement. He has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chinese Taipei | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.73 | 2.18 | top 0.72% | 9 / 1,016 | |
| 3×3 | 8.48 | 9.89 | top 3.7% | 212 / 4,213 | |
| 2×2 | 3.08 | 3.86 | top 15.2% | 399 / 1,669 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Jul 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.06 at Maru Cube Day 2023.
- 22 Jul 2023Five personal bests in one day at Maru Cube Day 2023.
- 15 Nov 2020First competition: Shenzhen Good Morning 2020. A 13.43 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guangzhou Special 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025 · 2 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Shenzhen Open 2024 · 7 Dec 2024
- Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024 · 3 Aug 2024
- Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024 · 22 Jun 2024
- Guangzhou Special 2024 · 2 Jun 2024
- Changsha Open 2023 · 23 Dec 2023
- Shenzhen Youth Open 2023 · 26 Nov 2023
- Maru Cube Day 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Hong Kong Cube Day 2023 · 4 Mar 2023
- Shenzhen Nanshan Morning 2021 · 28 Mar 2021
- Guangzhou Panyu Morning 2021 · 28 Feb 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2021 · 9 Jan 2021
- Guangzhou Good Morning 2020 · 13 Dec 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Shenzhen Good Morning 2020 · 15 Nov 2020
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.
- Yang Pin Xiu (楊品修) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Shek Ho Hin (石灝軒) — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Cian-Jyun Yang (楊謙君) — met in 20 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
Targets move as he improves.