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Ruxin Liu (刘茹心)

3×3 · top 16.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013LIUR01

Ruxin Liu (刘茹心) has been competing for 13 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.73, set at Zibo Open 2019, puts her in the top 16.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,461st in China. Across 16 competitions since April 2013, she has put 253 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:39.33 in April 2013 to 12.73, an 87% improvement. Ruxin has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.5% of 284,439 all-time
12.73
signature single · Zibo Open 2019
253
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.7314.83
top 16.5%6,461 / 28,153
Pyraminx5.968.33
top 19.7%2,251 / 10,224
2×24.024.83
top 26.7%4,520 / 15,796
3×3 blindfolded3:46.564:05.00
top 64.9%895 / 1,183
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 33:23
top 77.3%215 / 278

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

Weifang Open 2013: 1:39.33Shandong Spring Open 2014: 50.21Zibo Open 2015: 28.54Qingdao Open 2016: 21.50Weihai Open 2016: 16.41Asian Championship 2016: 14.61Zibo Open 2016: 19.90Weifang Winter 2016: 17.63Qingdao Prime Numbers 2017: 16.12Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 19.59Weihai Open 2017: 19.69Weihai Open 2018: 18.27Zibo Open 2018: 14.33Shandong Open 2019: 13.56Zibo Open 2019: 12.7312.731:39.3314 Apr 201317 Nov 2019

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as she improves.