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Kaiyuan Gao (高凯源)

3×3 · top 18.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013GAOK01

Kaiyuan Gao (高凯源) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.19, set at Yangzhou Open 2017, puts him in the top 18.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,091st in China. Across 3 competitions since April 2013, he has put 57 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.24 in April 2013 to 13.19, a 19% improvement. Kaiyuan has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.1% of 284,439 all-time
13.19
signature single · Yangzhou Open 2017
57
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.1915.39
top 18.1%7,091 / 28,153
Pyraminx8.5312.84
top 40.8%4,394 / 10,224
2×25.136.24
top 40.9%7,083 / 15,796
4×41:19.09
early days — 2 solves4,795 / 5,926
Clock18.0322.98
top 58.8%1,341 / 1,843
Skewb11.1715.41
top 61.7%3,352 / 5,004

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

Nanjing Normal University 2013: 16.24Nanjing Spring 2015: 14.08Yangzhou Open 2017: 13.1913.1916.246 Apr 201320 Aug 2017

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.19 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.