People · Chinese Taipei
Liu Cheng-Wei (劉正威)
3×3 · top 15.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009CHEN37
Liu Cheng-Wei (劉正威) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.55, set at Magic Revenge 2012, puts him in the top 15.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 942nd in Chinese Taipei. Across 10 competitions since August 2009, he has put 143 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Liu has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Chinese Taipei | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 12.55 | 14.23 | top 15.8% | 942 / 4,213 | |
| 2×2 | 4.41 | 8.41 | top 31.8% | 768 / 1,669 | |
| 4×4 | 1:02.38 | 1:09.18 | top 39.0% | 640 / 1,078 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.47 | 38.00 | top 43.0% | 528 / 802 | |
| 5×5 | 2:08.02 | 2:17.78 | top 54.3% | 485 / 639 | |
| 6×6 | 4:16.65 | 4:38.69 | early days — 3 solves | 250 / 292 | |
| 7×7 | 7:32.13 | 8:16.89 | early days — 3 solves | 238 / 252 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Aug 2009First competition: Taiwan Summer Open 2009. A 13.59 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Dream One Cube Open 2019 · 15 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Taichung Cubing Open 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015 · 15 Aug 2015
- Taiwan Summer Open 2013 · 17 Aug 2013
- Magic Revenge 2012 · 30 Dec 2012 — 2 personal bests set
- Taipei Open 2011 · 8 Oct 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Summer Open 2010 · 28 Aug 2010 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Winter Open 2010 · 6 Feb 2010 — 2 personal bests set
- Maru Cube Day 2009 · 5 Sep 2009 — 1 personal best set
- Taiwan Summer Open 2009 · 22 Aug 2009
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.
- Kuo-Hau Wu (吳國豪) — met in 27 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jr-Wei Jang (張智瑋) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead once
- Yueh-Lin Tsai (蔡岳霖) — met in 25 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
- A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
Targets move as he improves.