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Yiling Liu (刘翊凌)

3×3 · top 25.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018LIUY03

Yiling Liu (刘翊凌) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.43, set at Shanghai Open 2019, puts him in the top 25.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,706th in China. Across 9 competitions since January 2018, he has put 88 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.92 in January 2018 to 15.43, a 55% improvement. Yiling has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.9% of 284,439 all-time
15.43
signature single · Shanghai Open 2019
88
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×315.4317.77
top 25.9%9,706 / 28,153
2×25.307.03
top 43.0%7,409 / 15,796
Pyraminx10.3615.63
top 55.8%5,804 / 10,224
4×41:26.201:49.42
top 60.8%5,061 / 5,926
Skewb18.6725.99
top 87.4%4,342 / 5,004

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

Shanghai Winter 2018: 33.92Kunshan Open 2018: 25.10Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 25.99Suzhou Open 2018: 20.37SJTU Winter Open 2018: 19.48Kunshan Open 2019: 15.91Huzhou Open 2019: 16.31China Championship 2019: 17.21Shanghai Open 2019: 15.4315.4333.9220 Jan 201819 Oct 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 0.43 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.