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Yan Shi (施妍)

3×3 · top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018SHIY09

Yan Shi (施妍) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.50, set at Taizhou Open 2019, puts her in the top 9.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,505th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since October 2018, she has put 109 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.78 in October 2018 to 10.50, a 41% improvement. Yan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.50
signature single · Taizhou Open 2019
109
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.5012.80
top 9.0%3,505 / 28,153
4×444.5652.58
top 17.7%1,922 / 5,926
Pyraminx7.079.55
top 28.4%3,173 / 10,224
2×24.646.07
top 34.7%5,965 / 15,796

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

Ningbo Open 2018: 17.78Hangzhou Open 2018: 17.12Wenzhou Open 2018: 17.32Hangzhou Open 2019: 13.96Huzhou Open 2019: 11.74Taizhou Open 2019: 10.50Hangzhou Autumn 2019: 11.62Shaoxing Open 2019: 10.6710.5017.7813 Oct 201821 Dec 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 4.56 away.

Targets move as she improves.