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Mingxuan Li (李明轩)

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017LIMI09

Mingxuan Li (李明轩) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.73, set at Shijiazhuang Open 2019, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,617th in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since November 2017, he has put 173 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.71 in November 2017 to 9.73, a 55% improvement. Mingxuan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.73
signature single · Shijiazhuang Open 2019
173
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.7312.65
top 6.7%2,617 / 28,153
Pyraminx4.707.75
top 11.4%1,365 / 10,224
2×23.295.34
top 17.7%2,854 / 15,796
4×455.461:10.46
top 31.3%3,160 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed28.4234.90
top 42.9%3,889 / 5,922
Skewb11.9215.74
top 65.6%3,522 / 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

Shijiazhuang Open 2017: 21.71Beijing Open 2018: 16.43Beijing Summer 2018: 16.67China Championship 2018: 13.24Shijiazhuang Winter 2018: 11.48Shijiazhuang Open 2019: 9.73Linfen Open 2019: 12.92China Championship 2019: 10.689.7321.7126 Nov 201726 Jul 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.73 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.