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Xiao Xue (薛晓)

3×3 · top 16.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2011 · 2011XUEX01

Xiao Xue (薛晓) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.68, set at Beijing Winter 2012, puts him in the top 16.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,387th in China. Across 11 competitions since August 2011, he has put 190 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.81 in August 2011 to 12.68, a 42% improvement. Xiao has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.68
signature single · Beijing Winter 2012
190
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.6815.39
top 16.3%6,387 / 28,153
2×24.137.62
top 28.1%4,778 / 15,796
Pyraminx7.2510.42
top 29.9%3,296 / 10,224
4×41:00.601:07.90
top 37.1%3,644 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed26.1929.13
top 37.3%3,492 / 5,922
5×51:51.522:01.24
top 43.7%1,917 / 2,816
Clock16.5819.47
top 54.0%1,255 / 1,843

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

Hangzhou Open 2011: 21.81Human Rights Day 2011: 21.53Tianjin Open 2011: 18.13Tianjin Open 2012: 15.83Shanghai Summer 2012: 21.00Asian Championship 2012: 15.40Beijing Winter 2012: 12.68Tianjin Winter 2012: 14.76Zhejiang University 2013: 13.58Shanghai Summer 2013: 16.65TUT 2013: 13.2112.6821.8120 Aug 201117 Nov 2013

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.