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Nihuan Yang (杨霓焕)

3×3 · top 18.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009YANG15

Nihuan Yang (杨霓焕) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.41, set at Beijing Spring 2011, puts him in the top 18.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,353rd in China. Across 4 competitions since August 2009, he has put 45 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.31 in August 2009 to 13.41, a 37% improvement. Nihuan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.9% of 284,439 all-time
13.41
signature single · Beijing Spring 2011
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.4115.89
top 18.9%7,353 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed35.3142.30
top 57.8%4,768 / 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

Beijing Summer Open 2009: 21.31Alpha Cube BUAA Open 2010: 16.47Beijing Spring 2011: 13.41Human Rights Day 2011: 13.8013.4121.3116 Aug 200910 Dec 2011

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 1.41 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 one-handed single — 34,382 people have one; it is 5.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.