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Yifan Yang (杨怡帆)

3×3 · top 33.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016YANG29

Yifan Yang (杨怡帆) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.81, set at Beijing Summer 2019, puts him in the top 33.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12,067th in China. Across 7 competitions since May 2016, he has put 119 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.69 in May 2016 to 17.81, a 25% improvement. Yifan has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 33.5% of 284,439 all-time
17.81
signature single · Beijing Summer 2019
119
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×317.8122.42
top 33.5%12,067 / 28,153
Pyraminx7.719.48
top 33.8%3,711 / 10,224
Skewb7.6812.46
top 38.9%2,320 / 5,004
2×25.646.28
top 47.0%8,056 / 15,796
4×41:11.29
top 48.1%4,403 / 5,926
Square-130.8642.71
top 51.0%879 / 1,362
5×52:12.042:19.90
top 56.6%2,271 / 2,816
Clock26.66
top 79.6%1,643 / 1,843

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

Tangshan Open 2016: 23.69Asian Championship 2016: 24.12Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 20.55Beijing Open 2018: 21.31Beijing Summer 2019: 17.8117.8124.128 May 20167 Jun 2019

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.81 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.