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Yaozhang Liu (刘曜彰)

3×3 · top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017LIUY11

Yaozhang Liu (刘曜彰) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.29, set at Maoming Open 2018, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,259th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since June 2017, he has put 45 official solves on the record across four events. Yaozhang has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 8.3% of 284,439 all-time
10.29
signature single · Maoming Open 2018
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.2912.97
top 8.3%3,259 / 28,153
5×51:10.141:14.25
top 11.7%576 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed17.2217.78
top 13.1%1,305 / 5,922
4×441.8846.03
top 14.4%1,550 / 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

Maoming Open 2017: 10.43Maoming Open 2018: 10.2910.2910.4311 Jun 201711 Nov 2018

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 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,252 people have one; it is 10.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.