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Yening Liu (刘烨宁)

Pyraminx · top 0.093% of 130,891 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023LIUY04

Yening Liu (刘烨宁) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.12, set at Linhai Newcomers 2025, puts him in the top 0.093% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in China. Until June 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since May 2023, he has put 2,262 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Pyraminx best has come down from 4.60 in May 2023 to 1.12, a 76% improvement. Yening has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.093% of 130,891 all-time
1.12
signature single · Linhai Newcomers 2025
2,262
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx1.121.95
top 0.093%9 / 10,269
Megaminx27.6234.13
top 0.099%2 / 1,693
Clock2.262.71
top 0.15%1 / 1,887
Skewb1.302.36
top 0.2%13 / 5,030
3×35.526.87
top 0.26%113 / 28,499
Square-15.847.19
top 0.7%10 / 1,373
4×427.2533.11
top 1.5%149 / 5,999
2×21.332.23
top 1.5%174 / 15,939
3×3 one-handed14.7016.20
top 7.6%745 / 5,994

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

STEM Cube Open Penang 2023: 4.60Vietnam Championship 2023: 5.69Hanoi Summer 2023: 7.21Thailand Championship 2023: 3.69Johor Mini 2023: 2.59Malaysia Cube Championship 2023: 2.87Hangzhou Spring 2024: 2.80Kunshan Open 2024: 1.89Nanchang Spring 2024: 1.90Sunway Velocity Mall Open 2024: 2.29Guangzhou Special 2024: 2.27Chengdu Summer 2024: 2.01Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024: 2.38Thailand Championship 2024: 2.53Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 1.99Yancheng Open 2024: 1.79Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 2.48Linhai Newcomers 2025: 1.12Shenyang Spring 2025: 1.80Nanchang Spring 2025: 2.29Hong Kong Side Event Day 2025: 1.60Xi'an Summer 2025: 1.28Taizhou Open 2025: 1.17Guangzhou Special 2025: 1.46Zhengzhou Zest 2025: 1.43Xianju Special 2026: 1.41Deqing Small & Special 2026: 2.04Chengdu Embracing Summer 2026: 1.97Quanzhou Summer 2026: 1.43Guangzhou Special 2026: 1.68Shanghai Summer 2026: 1.90Zhanjiang Open 2026: 1.91Fuzhou Special 2026: 1.53Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 1.40Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026: 1.65Guangzhou Grand Open 2026: 1.691.127.2128 May 20235 Oct 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 2.62 away.

Targets move as he improves.