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Yiming Liu (刘一明)

2×2 · top 9.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010YIMI01

Yiming Liu (刘一明) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.56, set at Beijing Open 2018, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,424th in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since August 2010, he has put 295 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.47 in August 2010 to 2.56, a 53% improvement. Yiming has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.56
signature single · Beijing Open 2018
295
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×22.564.18
top 9.5%1,424 / 15,796
3×312.2114.74
top 14.6%5,752 / 28,153
Pyraminx5.689.92
top 17.6%2,038 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed24.5032.80
top 32.9%3,160 / 5,922
4×456.9358.94
top 33.0%3,302 / 5,926
Skewb7.0415.43
top 34.0%2,072 / 5,004
5×51:53.282:10.58
top 44.9%1,948 / 2,816
Megaminx2:00.072:15.94
top 45.7%1,242 / 1,678
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves47.00
top 51.8%610 / 1,058
6×64:23.48
early days — 2 solves1,219 / 1,349
Square-147.44
early days — 2 solves1,191 / 1,362
3×3 blindfolded6:07.15
early days — 2 solves1,124 / 1,183

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

ChangChun 2010: 5.47Beijing Winter 2011: 3.28Shandong Open 2011: 3.13ShenYang Open 2011: 4.19Qinhuangdao Open 2015: 5.19Asian Championship 2016: 3.98Tangshan Open 2017: 3.95Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 3.03Fushun Open 2018: 4.05Beijing Open 2018: 2.562.565.471 Aug 201030 Apr 2018

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.