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Yang Liu (刘洋)

3×3 · top 27.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009LIUY06

Yang Liu (刘洋) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.91, set at Henan Open 2010, puts him in the top 27.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,222nd in China. Across 17 competitions since August 2009, he has put 253 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.65 in November 2009 to 15.91, a 30% improvement. Yang has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 27.5% of 284,439 all-time
15.91
signature single · Henan Open 2010
253
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×315.9118.86
top 27.5%10,222 / 28,153
Pyraminx8.2912.97
top 38.7%4,188 / 10,224
2×25.387.18
top 44.0%7,561 / 15,796
4×41:14.771:21.56
top 51.4%4,598 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed43.7546.15
top 70.2%5,348 / 5,922
5×52:52.033:06.24
top 75.4%2,631 / 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

Harbin Open 2009: 22.65Changchun Open 2010: 21.17Henan Open 2010: 15.91Alpha Cube BUAA Open 2010: 19.86Taiyuan 2010: 18.84Inner Mongolia 2010: 19.27Tianjin Open 2010: 20.43Beijing Summer Open 2011: 17.58Puy de Dôme Open 2013: 17.94Strasbourg Open 2016: 17.24Cité des Jeux 2016: 18.27World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 17.63French Championship 2019: 18.25Sézanne Open 2023: 23.9115.9123.918 Nov 200922 Jul 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.