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Yankai Xu (许晏恺)

3×3 · top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016XUYA02

Yankai Xu (许晏恺) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.06, set at Shenyang Open 2016, puts him in the top 17.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,903rd in China. Across 3 competitions since April 2016, he has put 67 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Yankai has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.06
signature single · Shenyang Open 2016
67
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.0616.32
top 17.6%6,903 / 28,153
2×23.516.07
top 20.3%3,336 / 15,796
Pyraminx8.1812.09
top 37.7%4,095 / 10,224
3×3 blindfolded4:10.96
early days — 3 solves967 / 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

Shenyang Open 2016: 13.06Asian Championship 2016: 15.48Shenyang Winter 2016: 15.6013.0615.6023 Apr 201611 Dec 2016

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.