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Yan Yu (于晏)

Square-1 · top 4.2% of 25,272 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014YUYA01

Yan Yu (于晏) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 8.83, set at Zhuhai Open 2017, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in China. Until October 2010, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since July 2014, he has put 182 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Yan has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 4.2% of 25,272 all-time
8.83
signature single · Zhuhai Open 2017
182
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Square-18.8311.80
top 4.2%54 / 1,362
3×312.0815.17
top 14.2%5,589 / 28,153
2×23.144.74
top 15.9%2,538 / 15,796
4×451.401:12.89
top 26.4%2,793 / 5,926
Skewb7.6011.09
top 38.3%2,281 / 5,004
Clock14.88
early days — 3 solves1,119 / 1,843
5×52:13.75
early days — 2 solves2,294 / 2,816

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

Huizhou Open 2014: 3.14Guangdong Open 2014: 4.31Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 4.55Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 4.41Huizhou Open 2015: 3.55Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 4.91Zhuhai Open 2017: 4.163.144.9127 Jul 201429 May 2017

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.