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Yandong Li (李燕东)

3×3 · top 42.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008LIYA02

Yandong Li (李燕东) has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.08, set at Beijing Fall Open 2008, puts him in the top 42.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 14,449th in China. Across 12 competitions since November 2008, he has put 114 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Yandong has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 42.9% of 284,439 all-time
21.08
signature single · Beijing Fall Open 2008
114
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×321.0824.66
top 42.9%14,449 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed35.0844.03
top 57.4%4,739 / 5,922
3×3 blindfolded3:33.61
top 61.9%857 / 1,183
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves
early days — 2 solves864 / 1,058
4×44:07.96
early days — 1 solve5,932 / 5,926

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

Beijing Fall Open 2008: 21.08Nanjing Open 2008: 23.99Beijing Spring Open 2009: 21.27Shijiazhuang Open 2009: 24.56Tianjin Open 2012: 25.05Beijing Summer 2012: 26.06BUAA Open 2013: 23.22Beijing Autumn 2014: 25.21Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 24.59Asian Championship 2016: 25.54Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 24.6021.0826.062 Nov 200817 Sep 2017

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.08 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 one-handed single — 34,382 people have one; it is 5.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.