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Yang Qi (祁洋)

3×3 one-handed · top 6.5% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011QIYA01

Yang Qi (祁洋) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 14.20, set at China Championship 2015, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 621st in China. Until September 2009, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since May 2011, he has put 140 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 23.93 in March 2012 to 14.20, a 41% improvement. Yang has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 6.5% of 73,695 all-time
14.20
signature single · China Championship 2015
140
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed14.2016.83
top 6.5%621 / 5,922
3×311.0011.78
top 10.5%4,100 / 28,153
2×22.855.64
top 12.6%1,967 / 15,796
4×41:03.501:18.37
top 40.1%3,878 / 5,926
5×51:55.252:06.10
top 46.1%1,990 / 2,816
Pyraminx9.8013.33
top 51.4%5,395 / 10,224

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

Nanjing Spring 2012: 23.93Nanjing Autumn 2014: 15.82Nanjing Spring 2015: 15.40China Championship 2015: 14.2014.2023.9325 Mar 20122 Oct 2015

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.20 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.