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Rui Liu (刘睿)

3×3 · top 15.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011LIUR01

Rui Liu (刘睿) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.43, set at Chongqing Open 2014, puts him in the top 15.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,040th in China. Across 3 competitions since May 2011, he has put 100 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.47 in May 2011 to 12.43, a 20% improvement. Rui has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.4% of 284,439 all-time
12.43
signature single · Chongqing Open 2014
100
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.4314.70
top 15.4%6,040 / 28,153
4×447.7754.13
top 21.8%2,352 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed21.1224.23
top 23.6%2,339 / 5,922
5×51:37.451:43.87
top 33.4%1,515 / 2,816
2×24.616.32
top 34.4%5,891 / 15,796
6×62:56.813:08.63
top 39.5%798 / 1,349
7×74:42.714:59.43
top 45.4%827 / 1,261

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

Taiyuan 2011: 15.47Chongqing Open 2014: 12.43Heilongjiang Colleges Open 2017: 14.0312.4315.4721 May 201117 Dec 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 7.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.