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Kaiyan Xie (谢凯彦)

Pyraminx · top 7.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018XIEK01

Kaiyan Xie (谢凯彦) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.96, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 878th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since January 2018, he has put 43 official solves on the record across four events. Kaiyan has entered two competitions.

Pyraminx
best event — top 7.5% of 129,321 all-time
3.96
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018
43
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx3.967.82
top 7.5%878 / 10,224
2×23.226.08
top 16.8%2,701 / 15,796
Skewb6.889.96
top 32.7%2,003 / 5,004
3×318.2821.37
top 34.9%12,453 / 28,153

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 New Year 2018: 19.36Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018: 18.2818.2819.361 Jan 20186 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 0.96 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.