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Lu Li (李鹿)

3×3 · top 72.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2010 · 2010LILU02

Lu Li (李鹿) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 36.27, set at Beijing Open 2017, puts him in the top 72.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21,146th in China. Across 10 competitions since May 2010, he has put 81 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.55 in May 2010 to 36.27, a 17% improvement. Lu has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 72.2% of 284,439 all-time
36.27
signature single · Beijing Open 2017
81
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×336.2744.20
top 72.2%21,146 / 28,153
Pyraminx13.1415.45
top 73.6%7,351 / 10,224
2×29.9015.00
top 77.6%12,559 / 15,796
4×44:01.85
early days — 1 solve5,927 / 5,926

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

Alpha Cube BUAA Open 2010: 43.55Beijing Mangshan National Forest Park Open 2010: 44.16Beijing Spring 2011: 45.18Beijing Summer 2012: 51.15Beijing Winter 2012: 45.81BUAA Open 2013: 44.71Tianjin University Open 2014: 37.04Tianjin Open 2016: 45.84Beijing Open 2017: 36.27Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 40.5936.2751.159 May 20105 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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 6.27 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 1.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.