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Yankun Qiu (邱焱坤)

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2010 · 2010QIUY01

Yankun Qiu (邱焱坤) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Huizhou Open 2014, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,830th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2010, he has put 319 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.61 in October 2010 to 10.78, a 26% improvement. Yankun has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.78
signature single · Huizhou Open 2014
319
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.7813.13
top 9.8%3,830 / 28,153
2×23.584.73
top 21.2%3,492 / 15,796
4×450.361:00.16
top 25.2%2,674 / 5,926
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves
early days — 3 solves409 / 1,058
Skewb7.7313.97
top 39.3%2,338 / 5,004
Square-129.0237.69
top 47.6%812 / 1,362
3×3 one-handed31.0932.94
top 49.1%4,271 / 5,922
5×52:40.21
early days — 2 solves2,575 / 2,816
Clock24.3129.89
top 75.4%1,587 / 1,843
Pyraminx14.4117.17
top 79.6%7,876 / 10,224

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

Guangdong Open 2010: 14.61Guangzhou HEMC Cubing Movement 2012: 13.84Guangdong Open 2013: 13.27Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 11.21Guangzhou Cube Splashing Day 2014: 12.70Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014: 12.60Huizhou Open 2014: 10.78Shantou Open 2014: 13.39Guangdong Open 2014: 12.26Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 13.68Back To Cubing Hong Kong 2015: 15.31Guangzhou More Fun Site 2015: 11.21Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 13.40Huizhou Open 2015: 14.06Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 12.71Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 13.99Asian Championship 2016: 14.14China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 13.2010.7815.313 Oct 20101 Oct 2017

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.