People · Australia
Rainie Liu (刘诗雨)
Pyraminx · top 10.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016LIUR05
Rainie Liu (刘诗雨) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.60, set at Swiss Open 2017, puts her in the top 10.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 498th in Australia. Across 18 competitions since November 2016, she has put 432 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.20 in November 2016 to 12.64, a 31% improvement. Rainie has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 4.60 | 6.40 | top 10.8% | 498 / 5,993 | |
| Megaminx | 1:05.05 | 1:12.47 | top 12.7% | 156 / 1,277 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.05 | 28.79 | top 15.2% | 340 / 2,659 | |
| 3×3 | 12.64 | 15.29 | top 16.2% | 1,446 / 11,709 | |
| 2×2 | 3.33 | 5.90 | top 18.1% | 1,361 / 8,567 | |
| Skewb | 5.70 | 7.21 | top 23.4% | 621 / 3,534 | |
| 4×4 | 1:05.67 | 1:14.29 | top 42.5% | 1,133 / 3,051 | |
| 5×5 | 1:54.64 | 2:01.12 | top 45.7% | 619 / 1,356 | |
| Square-1 | 41.95 | 1:06.50 | top 67.8% | 651 / 899 | |
| Clock | 22.22 | 33.02 | top 70.6% | 767 / 1,095 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 7:02.24 | — | early days — 1 solve | 371 / 394 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Nov 2017Three personal bests in one day at Canberra Spring 2017.
- 23 Sep 2017Five personal bests in one day at Australian Nationals 2017.
- 21 Jul 2017Three personal bests in one day at Swiss Open 2017.
- 8 Jul 2017Four personal bests in one day at Mantua Summer 2017.
- 7 May 2017First sub-15 3×3: 14.94 at Cube for Cambodia 2017.
- 18 Mar 2017Three personal bests in one day at Cubing Classic 2017.
Competitions
- Melbourne Cube Days 2019 · 30 Nov 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- WCA World Championship 2019 · 11 Jul 2019
- Hobart Open 2019 · 9 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- St Kevin's College Spring 2018 · 27 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Winter 2018 · 2 Jun 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- ASFA Speedcubing 2018 · 17 Mar 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Hobart Summer 2018 · 27 Jan 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2017 · 18 Nov 2017
- Canberra Spring 2017 · 4 Nov 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Australian Nationals 2017 · 23 Sep 2017 — 5 personal bests set
- Swiss Open 2017 · 21 Jul 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017 · 13 Jul 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Mantua Summer 2017 · 8 Jul 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- Beijing Open 2017 · 24 Jun 2017
- Cube for Cambodia 2017 · 7 May 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing Classic 2017 · 18 Mar 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- POPS Open 2016 · 11 Dec 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2016 · 5 Nov 2016
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.
- Calven Lipec — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead 24 times
- Emmet Hobbs — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
- Feliks Zemdegs — met in 60 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
- A sub-1:00 Megaminx single — 3,483 people have one; it is 5.05 away.
Targets move as she improves.