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Yangyi Chen (陈杨漪)

Skewb · top 8.6% of 73,281 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013CHEN17

Yangyi Chen (陈杨漪) has been competing for 13 years. Her best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.64, set at Shanghai Winter 2018, puts her in the top 8.6% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 491st in China. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since April 2013, she has put 601 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 26.82 in April 2013 to 12.35, a 54% improvement. Yangyi has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 8.6% of 73,281 all-time
3.64
signature single · Shanghai Winter 2018
601
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Skewb3.645.39
top 8.6%491 / 5,004
3×312.3516.37
top 15.1%5,935 / 28,153
2×23.365.94
top 18.5%3,016 / 15,796
Pyraminx5.808.29
top 18.5%2,132 / 10,224
4×451.6359.32
top 26.7%2,819 / 5,926
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 3 solves459 / 1,058
5×51:49.682:04.72
top 42.4%1,875 / 2,816
Megaminx1:59.072:16.61
top 45.2%1,238 / 1,678
Clock18.0719.31
top 59.0%1,344 / 1,843
3×3 one-handed39.6257.20
top 64.8%5,112 / 5,922
Square-139.8851.28
top 65.2%1,083 / 1,362

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

Shanghai Maritime Open 2013: 26.82Shanghai Summer 2013: 24.41Shanghai Spring 2014: 21.08Hefei Open 2015: 19.48Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 17.71Suzhou Open 2016: 18.54Xi'an Open 2016: 18.60Yangzhou Open 2016: 20.80Asian Championship 2016: 19.04Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 17.47Shanghai Spring 2017: 15.16Changsha Xiangmo 2017: 16.04Quanzhou Open 2017: 18.14China Championship 2017: 14.49Wuxi Open 2017: 16.01Yangzhou Open 2017: 16.84HDU Open 2017: 15.46Shanghai Winter 2018: 15.93Hangzhou Spring 2018: 15.78Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 16.77Nanchang Dragon-boat Open 2018: 13.59Hefei Summer 2018: 14.97Ningbo Open 2018: 15.84Wuxi Autumn 2018: 14.95SJTU Winter Open 2018: 15.90Shijiazhuang Open 2019: 15.06Huzhou Open 2019: 18.37Xiamen Autumn 2019: 12.35Shanghai Open 2019: 16.4612.3526.8220 Apr 201319 Oct 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-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as she improves.