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Xinkai Liu (刘鑫楷)
Pyraminx · top 7.5% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019LIUX15
Xinkai Liu (刘鑫楷) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.98, set at Shandong Open 2019, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 890th in China. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 1 competition since October 2019, he has put 25 official solves on the record across four events.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.98 | 8.37 | top 7.5% | 890 / 10,224 | |
| 3×3 | 11.25 | 13.05 | top 11.3% | 4,423 / 28,153 | |
| Square-1 | 18.98 | 23.53 | top 25.6% | 426 / 1,362 | |
| Skewb | 6.79 | 7.75 | top 32.0% | 1,955 / 5,004 |
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 story so far
- 4 Oct 2019First competition: Shandong Open 2019. A 11.25 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shandong Open 2019 · 4 Oct 2019
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.
- Yiqi Sun (孙以齐) — met in 5 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Xingjian Zhang (张行健) — met in 5 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Ziqian Zhang (张子骞) — met in 5 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.25 away.
Targets move as he improves.