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Liuqing Yang (杨柳青)

Pyraminx · top 7.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015YANG32

Liuqing Yang (杨柳青) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.87, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016, puts her in the top 7.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 836th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since October 2015, she has put 192 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 44.66 in October 2015 to 15.84, a 65% improvement. Liuqing has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 7.0% of 129,321 all-time
3.87
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016
192
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx3.875.51
top 7.0%836 / 10,224
3×315.8417.28
top 27.2%10,148 / 28,153
Megaminx1:32.651:51.88
top 29.9%897 / 1,678
Skewb6.7110.84
top 31.3%1,914 / 5,004
2×26.287.24
top 53.7%9,136 / 15,796
4×41:23.01
early days — 2 solves4,950 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed36.6641.60
top 60.2%4,889 / 5,922

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

China Championship 2015: 44.66Wuhan University Open 2015: 39.08Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 20.64Chongqing Open 2016: 22.33Wuhan Open 2016: 21.72Nanchang Winter 2016: 17.02Wuhan Chuyun Spring 2017: 19.43Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 17.86Changsha Xiangmo 2017: 15.89Wuhan NxN Open 2017: 15.84WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 16.7915.8444.662 Oct 201525 Nov 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as she improves.