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Yan-Xiang Qiu (邱彥翔)

3×3 · top 11.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015QIUY01

Yan-Xiang Qiu (邱彥翔) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.24, set at Taiwan Open 2022, puts him in the top 11.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 679th in Chinese Taipei. Across 13 competitions since August 2015, he has put 345 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.49 in August 2015 to 11.24, a 45% improvement. He has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.2% of 284,439 all-time
11.24
signature single · Taiwan Open 2022
345
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×311.2414.27
top 11.2%679 / 4,213
Square-113.7720.38
top 13.7%65 / 323
3×3 one-handed17.5721.20
top 14.0%191 / 802
4×446.0954.92
top 19.7%412 / 1,078
Pyraminx6.1511.89
top 21.1%312 / 1,016
2×23.744.86
top 23.2%571 / 1,669
Skewb5.828.24
top 24.4%238 / 699
5×51:31.961:47.84
top 28.9%323 / 639
6×63:44.81
early days — 1 solve229 / 292
7×76:03.67
early days — 1 solve208 / 252
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 1 solve157 / 204

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

Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 20.49Taichung Cube Open 2016: 18.90Maru Cube Day 2016: 17.94Taiwan Championship 2016: 20.58Kaohsiung Summer Open 2017: 15.75Maru Cube Day 2017: 12.94Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 16.61Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2017: 13.71Taiwan Championship 2020: 14.59Taiwan Open 2022: 11.24Kaohsiung Winter Open 2022: 14.25Taiwan Championship 2023: 13.9011.2420.5815 Aug 20158 Dec 2023

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 1.24 away.
  • A sub-12 Square-1 single — 2,502 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.