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Shuang Liang (梁爽)

3×3 · top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016LIAN08

Shuang Liang (梁爽) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.66, set at Yangzhou Open 2017, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,547th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since May 2016, he has put 40 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.28 in May 2016 to 8.66, a 39% improvement. Shuang has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 4.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.66
signature single · Yangzhou Open 2017
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.6610.32
top 4.1%1,547 / 28,153
Skewb4.606.79
top 15.2%934 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed21.0927.01
top 23.5%2,335 / 5,922
2×23.955.87
top 25.9%4,353 / 15,796

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 Songjiang Open 2016: 14.28Yangzhou Open 2017: 8.668.6614.2814 May 201620 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.