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Tao Yu (喻韬)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.33% of 73,695 all-time · competing since February 2012 · 2012YUTA01

Tao Yu (喻韬) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.53, set at Stevenage Autumn B 2022, puts him in the top 0.33% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Ireland. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since February 2012, he has put 1,490 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.36 in February 2012 to 6.25, a 45% improvement. Tao has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.33% of 73,695 all-time
8.53
signature single · Stevenage Autumn B 2022
1,490
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×3 one-handed8.5311.02
top 0.33%1 / 448
2×21.002.94
top 0.55%11 / 1,163
3×36.257.52
top 0.65%16 / 1,427
3×3 blindfolded24.1847.28
top 2.7%3 / 59
4×430.0335.25
top 2.9%18 / 579
3×3 Fewest Moves23 moves34.67
top 3.0%2 / 88
Pyraminx5.378.23
top 15.5%189 / 911
5×51:15.691:30.94
top 15.9%49 / 296
Clock10.4814.94
top 27.4%96 / 331
4×4 blindfolded6:03.52—
early days — 1 solve7 / 16
Skewb6.6311.24
top 30.7%210 / 624
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 4 cubes · 20:10—
top 41.0%15 / 24
Megaminx2:21.112:25.07
top 56.9%163 / 283
Square-11:42.62—
top 97.1%194 / 194

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

Irish Open 2012: 11.36Shanghai Summer 2012: 9.27Northern Irish Open 2013: 8.44Irish Championship 2015: 7.78Irish Championship 2016: 8.00Irish Championship 2017: 8.66World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.56Dublin Open 2017: 7.46Irish Championship 2018: 8.31Cork Open 2019: 7.88Irish Championship 2019: 7.48Wakefield Open 2022: 7.48Farnworth Spring B 2022: 7.29Chester Spring 2022: 6.81Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 7.62Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 7.14Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 6.73Irish Championship 2022: 6.66East London Autumn 2022: 7.08Stevenage January 2023: 6.74Brent Cross Winter 2023: 6.96Stevenage May 2023: 6.61Irish Championship 2023: 6.59Isle of Wight Summer 2023: 6.45Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.16Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 6.256.2511.3611 Feb 201216 Nov 2024

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.