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Yiren Lu (陆弈人)

2×2 · top 6.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015LUYI01

Yiren Lu (陆弈人) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.19, set at Shanghai Spring 2016, puts him in the top 6.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 861st in China. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since April 2015, he has put 266 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.05 in April 2015 to 10.27, a 53% improvement. Yiren has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.19
signature single · Shanghai Spring 2016
266
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×22.194.10
top 6.1%861 / 15,796
3×310.2711.93
top 8.3%3,230 / 28,153
Pyraminx4.775.91
top 11.8%1,413 / 10,224
Skewb4.366.01
top 13.4%821 / 5,004
4×446.0049.74
top 19.6%2,109 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed22.9324.96
top 28.6%2,789 / 5,922
Clock12.3113.09
top 36.4%871 / 1,843
5×51:45.871:50.27
top 39.8%1,781 / 2,816

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 Fudan Spring 2015: 22.05Shanghai Summer Open 2015: 16.09Shanghai Spring 2016: 13.53Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 10.27Suzhou Open 2016: 13.36Changshu Open 2017: 12.19Shanghai Winter 2018: 10.35Shanghai Love in ECNU 2018: 10.99SJTU Open 2018: 10.84Shanghai Open 2019: 11.5110.2722.0525 Apr 201519 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.