People · China
Yang Xia (夏洋)
3×3 · top 13.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015XIAY01
Yang Xia (夏洋) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.01, set at Wuxi Winter 2019, puts him in the top 13.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,504th in China. Across 16 competitions since August 2015, he has put 467 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.97 in August 2015 to 12.01, a 37% improvement. Yang has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 12.01 | 14.94 | top 13.9% | 5,504 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.99 | 4.63 | top 14.1% | 2,207 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 43.41 | 55.10 | top 16.3% | 1,768 / 5,926 | |
| Skewb | 5.19 | 8.37 | top 19.6% | 1,216 / 5,004 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 21.81 | 27.89 | top 25.5% | 2,507 / 5,922 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.83 | 9.75 | top 26.5% | 2,963 / 10,224 | |
| 5×5 | 1:52.16 | 1:54.87 | top 44.1% | 1,929 / 2,816 | |
| Clock | 14.58 | 15.44 | top 46.2% | 1,089 / 1,843 | |
| 7×7 | 6:05.53 | 6:33.08 | early days — 3 solves | 1,091 / 1,261 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 4:15.96 | — | early days — 1 solve | 977 / 1,183 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 8 Dec 2019Three personal bests in one day at Wuxi Winter 2019.
- 23 Mar 2019Three personal bests in one day at Hefei Spring 2019.
- 19 May 2018Three personal bests in one day at Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018.
- 20 Jan 2018Four personal bests in one day at Shanghai Winter 2018.
- 16 Sep 2017Five personal bests in one day at Suzhou Open 2017.
- 5 Nov 2016First sub-15 3×3: 14.47 at Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016.
Competitions
- Wuxi Winter 2019 · 8 Dec 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Shanghai Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019
- Kunshan Open 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Hefei Spring 2019 · 23 Mar 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- SJTU Winter Open 2018 · 30 Dec 2018
- SJTU Open 2018 · 30 Jun 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018 · 19 May 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Kunshan Open 2018 · 21 Apr 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Spring 2018 · 17 Mar 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Shanghai Winter 2018 · 20 Jan 2018 — 4 personal bests set
- Suzhou Open 2017 · 16 Sep 2017 — 5 personal bests set
- Shanghai Love In ECNU 2017 · 20 May 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Shanghai Spring 2017 · 18 Mar 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016 · 5 Nov 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016 · 14 May 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- Shanghai Summer Open 2015 · 30 Aug 2015
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.
- Yinghao Wang (王鹰豪) — met in 68 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lukas Shelley — met in 61 rounds, never finished ahead
- Xulang Li (黎旭朗) — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
Targets move as he improves.