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Yikai Wang (王奕凯)

3×3 one-handed · top 4.8% of 73,695 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017WANY05

Yikai Wang (王奕凯) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 13.28, set at Beijing Open 2018, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 439th in China. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since June 2017, he has put 229 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.86 in June 2017 to 10.19, a 21% improvement. Yikai has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 4.8% of 73,695 all-time
13.28
signature single · Beijing Open 2018
229
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed13.2816.71
top 4.8%439 / 5,922
3×310.1911.50
top 8.0%3,144 / 28,153
4×437.1243.82
top 8.8%915 / 5,926
5×51:09.981:14.75
top 11.6%570 / 2,816
6×62:06.722:12.71
top 14.0%297 / 1,349
Megaminx1:07.971:14.74
top 14.5%419 / 1,678
7×73:17.723:26.96
top 15.6%316 / 1,261
Skewb6.206.68
top 27.3%1,689 / 5,004
2×24.404.73
top 31.6%5,421 / 15,796

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

Beijing Open 2017: 12.86Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 12.12Beijing Open 2018: 11.21Beijing Summer 2018: 10.32China Championship 2018: 10.68Beijing Winter 2018: 10.1910.1912.8624 Jun 201731 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-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.28 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.