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Xingyue Cao (曹星悦)

3×3 · top 10.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2012 · 2012CAOX01

Xingyue Cao (曹星悦) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.96, set at Nanjing Autumn 2014, puts him in the top 10.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,052nd in China. Across 14 competitions since October 2012, he has put 124 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.81 in October 2012 to 10.96, a 38% improvement. Xingyue has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.96
signature single · Nanjing Autumn 2014
124
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.9613.30
top 10.4%4,052 / 28,153

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

Nanjing Autumn 2012: 17.81Nanjing Normal University 2013: 13.83Shanghai Spring 2014: 15.24Nanjing Spring 2014: 13.20Hefei Spring 2014: 13.23Nanjing Autumn 2014: 10.96Nanjing Spring 2015: 13.79Shanghai Spring 2016: 13.24Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 13.96Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017: 13.81SJTU Open 2018: 14.89Suzhou Open 2018: 12.45Ningbo Open 2018: 11.87SJTU Winter Open 2018: 12.6310.9617.8127 Oct 201230 Dec 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.