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Lifu Wang

3×3 · top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015WANG34

Lifu Wang has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.64, set at Australian Nationals 2016, puts him in the top 23.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,840th in China. Across 6 competitions since May 2015, he has put 127 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.76 in May 2015 to 14.64, a 22% improvement. Lifu has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.2% of 284,439 all-time
14.64
signature single · Australian Nationals 2016
127
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×314.6417.26
top 23.2%8,840 / 28,153
4×455.091:05.06
top 30.8%3,129 / 5,926
2×26.159.77
top 52.4%8,913 / 15,796
Pyraminx10.2717.52
top 55.1%5,741 / 10,224
5×52:11.122:19.30
top 56.1%2,258 / 2,816
3×3 blindfolded3:29.57
top 60.9%843 / 1,183
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 11:10
early days — 1 solve173 / 278
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 3 solves774 / 1,058

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

Canberra Autumn 2015: 18.76Canberra Autumn 2016: 15.83Australian Nationals 2016: 14.64Canberra Spring 2016: 15.73Sydney Winter 2017: 14.69Sydney Championship 2017: 15.3314.6418.769 May 201516 Dec 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 2.64 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 5.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.