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Ruichao Yang (杨睿超)

3×3 · top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2010 · 2010YANG06

Ruichao Yang (杨睿超) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.76, set at Taiyuan Open 2016, puts him in the top 13.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,161st in China. Across 9 competitions since May 2010, he has put 157 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.59 in May 2010 to 11.76, a 62% improvement. Ruichao has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time
11.76
signature single · Taiyuan Open 2016
157
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.7614.39
top 13.1%5,161 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed19.4125.21
top 19.0%1,895 / 5,922
4×453.061:00.97
top 28.4%2,965 / 5,926
2×27.8812.09
top 67.0%11,074 / 15,796
Megaminx3:59.914:58.08
top 90.1%1,644 / 1,678

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 2010: 30.59Taiyuan 2011: 14.40Zhengzhou Autumn 2011: 15.50Taiyuan Open 2012: 11.77Taiyuan Open 2013: 12.61Taiyuan Open 2016: 11.76Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 14.10Taiyuan Autumn 2017: 15.79Taiyuan Winter 2018: 14.4411.7630.5930 May 201022 Dec 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.76 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 4.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.