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Kaiyi Luo

3×3 · top 39.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023LUOK01

Kaiyi Luo has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 19.94, set at An Afternoon in Nyack 2024, puts him in the top 39.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22,537th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since July 2023, he has put 71 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 2×2 best has come down from 10.11 in July 2023 to 5.12, a 49% improvement. Kaiyi has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 39.8% of 284,439 all-time
19.94
signature single · An Afternoon in Nyack 2024
71
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×319.9424.16
top 39.8%22,537 / 59,724
2×25.126.89
top 40.8%16,393 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.3214.75
top 47.5%13,721 / 28,708
Skewb13.6620.42
top 73.5%13,868 / 18,907
4×41:54.99
early days — 2 solves14,691 / 19,072

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

Quick in Quincy 2023: 10.11CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 7.41Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 6.78CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 6.01An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 5.125.1210.1116 Jul 202329 Sep 2024

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 4.94 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.