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Tianli Song (宋天笠)

3×3 · top 25.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016SONG01

Tianli Song (宋天笠) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.20, set at Jinhua Open 2016, puts him in the top 25.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,631st in China. Across 4 competitions since March 2016, he has put 70 official solves on the record across six events. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.35 in March 2016 to 15.20, a 12% improvement. Tianli has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.2% of 288,433 all-time
15.20
signature single · Jinhua Open 2016
70
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×315.2016.43
top 25.2%9,631 / 28,499
2×23.916.52
top 25.4%4,337 / 15,939
Pyraminx6.9010.72
top 27.1%3,070 / 10,269
3×3 one-handed24.0428.61
top 31.7%3,107 / 5,994
Skewb9.1112.99
top 49.3%2,819 / 5,030
4×41:42.58—
early days — 2 solves5,523 / 5,999

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 Spring 2016: 17.35Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 18.59Jinhua Open 2016: 15.20Hangzhou Autumn 2016: 16.1915.2018.5919 Mar 201619 Nov 2016

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-15 3×3 single — 70,740 people have one; it is 0.20 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.