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Xiulian Li (栗秀连)

3×3 · top 28.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017LIXI08

Xiulian Li (栗秀连) has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.11, set at Inner Mongolia Winter 2019, puts her in the top 28.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,424th in China. Across 7 competitions since May 2017, she has put 95 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 49.31 in May 2017 to 16.11, a 67% improvement. Xiulian has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 28.1% of 284,439 all-time
16.11
signature single · Inner Mongolia Winter 2019
95
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×316.1119.65
top 28.1%10,424 / 28,153
4×41:13.00
early days — 3 solves4,510 / 5,926
Megaminx2:15.43
early days — 1 solve1,372 / 1,678
2×26.957.92
top 60.0%10,097 / 15,796
Pyraminx11.5515.64
top 64.3%6,529 / 10,224
Skewb14.2722.74
top 75.8%3,916 / 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 line so far

Taiyuan Open 2017: 49.31Hefei Open 2017: 24.10Taiyuan Autumn 2017: 22.37Linfen Open 2018: 19.21Taiyuan Winter 2018: 18.60Inner Mongolia Winter 2019: 16.11Linfen Open 2019: 17.7416.1149.317 May 20177 Jul 2019

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 13.00 away.

Targets move as she improves.