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Yanli Xie (谢燕丽)

Pyraminx · top 15.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2009 · 2009XIEY02

Yanli Xie (谢燕丽) has been competing for 17 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.30, set at Shenzhen University 2011, puts her in the top 15.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,774th in China. Across 11 competitions since October 2009, she has put 156 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.75 in October 2009 to 13.94, a 29% improvement. Yanli has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 15.1% of 129,321 all-time
5.30
signature single · Shenzhen University 2011
156
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx5.307.49
top 15.1%1,774 / 10,224
3×313.9416.69
top 20.7%8,021 / 28,153
2×25.558.02
top 45.9%7,851 / 15,796
4×41:34.551:53.62
top 66.9%5,290 / 5,926

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 2009: 19.75Shantou Open 2010: 17.08Guangdong Open 2010: 15.84Guangzhou Small Cubes 2010: 13.94One-to-eight Cubes Competition 2011: 15.44Shenzhen University 2011: 14.83Guangzhou Summer Vacation 2011: 16.72Changsha Open 2011: 17.95Guangzhou Winter 2011: 14.3813.9419.751 Oct 20093 Dec 2011

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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.94 away.

Targets move as she improves.