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Kaiming Yao (姚楷明)

Skewb · top 12.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017YAOK01

Kaiming Yao (姚楷明) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 4.22, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017, puts him in the top 12.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 746th in China. Across 2 competitions since April 2017, he has put 39 official solves on the record across four events. Kaiming has entered two competitions.

Skewb
best event — top 12.4% of 73,281 all-time
4.22
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017
39
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Skewb4.2211.37
top 12.4%746 / 5,004
Pyraminx5.5811.38
top 16.9%1,981 / 10,224
3×318.3021.56
top 35.0%12,476 / 28,153
2×25.347.56
top 43.5%7,489 / 15,796

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

Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 5.58China Championship 2017: 7.245.587.242 Apr 201728 Jul 2017

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-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.