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Yanliang Lü (吕彦良)

Skewb · top 29.8% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016LUYA01

Yanliang Lü (吕彦良) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 6.51, set at Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016, puts him in the top 29.8% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,839th in China. Across 4 competitions since March 2016, he has put 58 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.47 in March 2016 to 18.69, a 37% improvement. Yanliang has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 29.8% of 73,281 all-time
6.51
signature single · Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016
58
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Skewb6.518.88
top 29.8%1,839 / 5,004
3×318.6921.34
top 36.2%12,783 / 28,153
2×26.528.31
top 56.2%9,509 / 15,796
Pyraminx14.3120.61
top 79.1%7,832 / 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

Shanghai Spring 2016: 29.47Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 26.73Asian Championship 2016: 19.25Shanghai Winter is Coming 2016: 18.6918.6929.4719 Mar 20165 Nov 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-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.