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Xiaoxin Yan (严晓歆)

3×3 · top 20.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2011 · 2011YANX02

Xiaoxin Yan (严晓歆) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.95, set at Shanghai Spring 2017, puts him in the top 20.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,037th in China. Across 5 competitions since August 2011, he has put 77 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Xiaoxin has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.8% of 284,439 all-time
13.95
signature single · Shanghai Spring 2017
77
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.9516.41
top 20.8%8,037 / 28,153
2×25.726.87
top 47.9%8,201 / 15,796
Pyraminx14.2917.64
top 79.1%7,825 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed53.18
early days — 2 solves5,657 / 5,922

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: 14.90Shanghai Spring 2017: 13.95Wenzhou Open 2017: 17.43ZUST Open 2017: 14.11Ningbo Open 2018: 16.5413.9517.4320 Aug 201113 Oct 2018

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 1.95 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.