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Yen-Wei Li (李彥緯)

3×3 · top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016LIYE01

Yen-Wei Li (李彥緯) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.10, set at Taipei Winter Open 2018, puts him in the top 7.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 460th in Chinese Taipei. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since October 2016, he has put 187 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.68 in October 2016 to 10.10, a 14% improvement. He has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.10
signature single · Taipei Winter Open 2018
187
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.1012.53
top 7.8%460 / 4,213
4×438.5543.02
top 10.4%241 / 1,078
5×51:10.601:14.97
top 12.0%179 / 639
2×22.974.44
top 13.9%367 / 1,669
7×74:41.945:01.12
early days — 3 solves164 / 252
6×63:31.283:40.84
early days — 3 solves215 / 292

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

Taiwan Championship 2016: 11.68Taipei Open 2017: 12.69Lanyang Open 2017: 11.12Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 10.91CK Cubing Party 2018: 10.97Taipei Winter Open 2018: 10.10Taiwan Championship 2018: 11.2910.1012.6929 Oct 201615 Dec 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 0.10 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.