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Yilin Miao (苗宜琳)

Pyraminx · top 0.86% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015MIAO02

Yilin Miao (苗宜琳) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.82, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom Special 2021, puts her in the top 0.86% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 100th in China. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since November 2015, she has put 848 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her Pyraminx best has come down from 22.33 in November 2015 to 1.82, a 92% improvement. Yilin has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.86% of 129,321 all-time
1.82
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom Special 2021
848
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx1.822.59
top 0.86%100 / 10,224
3×38.6712.00
top 4.1%1,561 / 28,153
Skewb6.5211.46
top 29.9%1,841 / 5,004
2×24.355.53
top 31.0%5,311 / 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

Zibo Open 2015: 22.33Qingdao Open 2016: 10.71Weihai Open 2016: 11.37Nanchang Open 2016: 10.50Linyi Open 2016: 9.63Asian Championship 2016: 8.81Zibo Open 2016: 4.62Weihai Open 2017: 6.51Taiyuan Open 2017: 5.91Luoyang Open 2017: 4.70Suzhou Open 2017: 5.15Taiyuan Autumn 2017: 4.88Jinan Open 2017: 4.63Jiaozuo Open 2017: 3.65Zibo Open 2017: 2.97Qingdao Open 2018: 3.41Kunshan Open 2018: 3.97Weihai Open 2018: 3.63Shijiazhuang Open 2018: 3.10Xuzhou Open 2018: 3.37Jiujiang Open 2018: 2.89Xuzhou Winter 2018: 3.46Zibo Open 2018: 2.78Taiyuan Winter 2018: 2.61Qingdao Spring 2019: 3.09Weihai Open 2019: 2.72Xuzhou Spring 2019: 2.84Heze Open 2019: 2.80China Championship 2019: 2.55Xinxiang Open 2019: 2.64Tianjin Autumn 2019: 2.89Zibo Open 2019: 2.30Taiyuan Winter 2019: 2.33Beijing Spring AM 2021: 2.41Xi'an Cherry Blossom Special 2021: 1.82Xuzhou Open AM 2021: 2.26Zhengzhou Summer 2021: 2.56Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021: 2.05Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 2.281.8222.3315 Nov 201512 Aug 2023

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.67 away.

Targets move as she improves.