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Ruoyu Xia (夏若愚)

3×3 · top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2012 · 2012XIAR01

Ruoyu Xia (夏若愚) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.40, set at Shenyang Winter 2016, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,383rd in China. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since April 2012, he has put 269 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.91 in April 2012 to 10.40, a 25% improvement. Ruoyu has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.40
signature single · Shenyang Winter 2016
269
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.4012.28
top 8.6%3,383 / 28,153
4×439.7348.86
top 11.8%1,262 / 5,926
2×23.396.82
top 18.9%3,083 / 15,796
5×51:21.421:37.54
top 20.2%959 / 2,816
3×3 blindfolded1:22.872:34.19
top 20.6%281 / 1,183
Square-116.9321.29
top 20.8%333 / 1,362
3×3 one-handed20.4022.61
top 21.5%2,145 / 5,922
6×62:34.502:48.22
top 28.0%602 / 1,349
7×74:28.764:43.24
top 40.7%763 / 1,261
4×4 blindfolded9:56.44
early days — 2 solves100 / 149
Skewb12.3513.16
top 67.7%3,587 / 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

Shanghai Donghua 2012: 13.91Shanghai Summer 2012: 14.63Shanghai Spring 2014: 12.73Suzhou Open 2014: 15.97Shenyang Open 2014: 13.70Shenyang Open 2016: 12.48Jinhua Open 2016: 10.98Shenyang Winter 2016: 10.40Chengdu Open 2017: 10.7210.4015.977 Apr 201229 Apr 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 9.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.