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Yanjierui Li (李延杰睿)

4×4 · top 3.3% of 83,917 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017LIYA07

Yanjierui Li (李延杰睿) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 30.76, set at Shenzhen Open 2024, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 336th in China. Until August 2011, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since August 2017, he has put 419 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.39 in August 2017 to 8.89, a 54% improvement. Yanjierui has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 3.3% of 83,917 all-time
30.76
signature single · Shenzhen Open 2024
419
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×430.7637.28
top 3.3%336 / 5,926
Pyraminx3.066.34
top 3.8%460 / 10,224
Megaminx48.2751.51
top 4.4%98 / 1,678
3×38.8910.51
top 4.6%1,765 / 28,153
5×558.761:12.66
top 4.9%232 / 2,816
2×22.293.40
top 7.0%988 / 15,796
6×62:08.242:22.87
early days — 3 solves317 / 1,349
7×73:18.343:31.79
early days — 3 solves326 / 1,261
3×3 one-handed18.3423.88
top 16.0%1,581 / 5,922
Skewb5.118.17
top 19.0%1,183 / 5,004
Clock9.6610.04
top 23.4%520 / 1,843

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

Yangzhou Open 2017: 19.39Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 21.73Shenzhen Open 2017: 14.94Dongguan Open 2018: 12.21GDSY Open 2018: 12.72Shenzhen Open 2018: 10.78Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 11.39Dongguan Open 2019: 10.52China Championship 2019: 11.28Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.91Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 8.92Xi'an Open 2024: 9.18Battersea Autumn 2024: 9.35Shenzhen Open 2024: 8.898.8921.7320 Aug 20177 Dec 2024

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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.