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Qiyu Hou (侯启予)

Clock · top 4.8% of 32,048 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015HOUQ01

Qiyu Hou (侯启予) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.14, set at Nanjing Spring 2018, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 88th in China. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since August 2015, he has put 572 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Clock best has come down from 8.83 in August 2015 to 5.14, a 42% improvement. Qiyu has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 4.8% of 32,048 all-time
5.14
signature single · Nanjing Spring 2018
572
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Clock5.146.36
top 4.8%88 / 1,843
2×22.404.06
top 8.0%1,152 / 15,796
Pyraminx4.605.74
top 10.8%1,284 / 10,224
3×315.3717.27
top 25.7%9,641 / 28,153
Skewb7.9910.91
top 41.2%2,434 / 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

Wuxi Open 2015: 8.83Shanghai Summer Open 2015: 7.38Nanjing Autumn 2015: 6.27Shanghai Spring 2016: 7.12Nanjing Spring 2016: 5.96Taiyuan Open 2016: 6.98Suzhou Open 2016: 7.65Hefei Open 2016: 6.36Xi'an Open 2016: 5.23Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 6.01Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 8.00Anhui University Smart Open 2017: 6.89Nanchang Spring 2017: 7.77Nanjing Spring 2017: 5.38Changshu Open 2017: 6.53Wuxi Open 2017: 5.72Hefei Open 2017: 5.52HUST Special Cubes Open 2017: 5.59Nanjing Autumn 2017: 5.56HDU Open 2017: 6.07Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018: 6.12Nanjing Spring 2018: 5.14Nanchang Summer Is Coming 2018: 6.16Hefei Spring 2019: 5.98China Championship 2019: 6.41Wuxi Open 2019: 5.33Guangdong Open 2021: 5.365.148.838 Aug 20151 May 2021

Best single per competition, Clock. 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-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.