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Yang Liu (刘洋)

3×3 · top 57.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016LIUY13

Yang Liu (刘洋) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 27.25, set at Xuzhou Spring 2019, puts her in the top 57.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,756th in China. Across 7 competitions since June 2016, she has put 44 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 49.49 in June 2016 to 27.25, a 45% improvement. Yang has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 57.4% of 284,439 all-time
27.25
signature single · Xuzhou Spring 2019
44
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×327.2528.32
top 57.4%17,756 / 28,153
2×28.8113.22
top 72.5%11,842 / 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

Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 49.49Yangzhou Open 2016: 48.45China Championship 2017: 39.84Luoyang Spring 2018: 32.43Xuzhou Open 2018: 29.53Zhangzhou Open 2018: 31.49Xuzhou Spring 2019: 27.2527.2549.4918 Jun 20161 May 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-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 2.25 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as she improves.