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Yangbo Xu (徐漾波)

3×3 · top 26.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2009 · 2009XUYA01

Yangbo Xu (徐漾波) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.60, set at Hangzhou Open 2018, puts him in the top 26.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,905th in China. Across 11 competitions since April 2009, he has put 125 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.94 in April 2009 to 15.60, a 26% improvement. Yangbo has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 26.5% of 284,439 all-time
15.60
signature single · Hangzhou Open 2018
125
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×315.6017.87
top 26.5%9,905 / 28,153
2×25.356.94
top 43.6%7,505 / 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

Qingming Festival Open 2009: 20.94Shanghai Weisuo Open 2009: 19.71Hangzhou Open 2010: 21.18Shanghai Winter Cubing Festival 2010: 15.94Hangzhou Open 2011: 16.75ZUST Open 2017: 16.52HDU Open 2017: 15.77Hangzhou Spring 2018: 17.42Hangzhou Open 2018: 15.60Hangzhou Open 2019: 15.62Hangzhou Autumn 2019: 15.7015.6021.186 Apr 20099 Nov 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.