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Yiwei Liu (刘伊玮)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.041% of 12,294 all-time · competing since July 2012 · 2012LIUY03

Yiwei Liu (刘伊玮) has been competing for 14 years. Her best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 17 moves, set at Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021, puts her in the top 0.041% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in China. Across 105 competitions since July 2012, she has put 2,040 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.65 in July 2012 to 8.57, a 37% improvement. Yiwei has entered 105 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.041% of 12,294 all-time
17 moves
signature single · Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021
2,040
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 Fewest Moves17 moves21.00
top 0.041%1 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded20.6825.88
top 1.6%21 / 1,183
3×38.5710.87
top 3.9%1,469 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed13.6215.75
top 5.5%505 / 5,922
2×22.234.09
top 6.5%920 / 15,796
Square-111.4215.02
top 8.7%131 / 1,362
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 15 cubes · 57:02—
top 8.7%26 / 278
4×444.3651.29
top 17.5%1,893 / 5,926
4×4 blindfolded6:07.95—
top 30.3%56 / 149
5×5 blindfolded20:38.00—
early days — 2 solves64 / 95

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

Qingdao Open 2012: 13.65Zhejiang University 2013: 12.66Wenzhou Open 2013: 10.66Hefei Open 2015: 13.34Shantou Open 2015: 10.71China Championship 2015: 10.54Nanjing Autumn 2015: 11.54Xi'an Open 2015: 11.11Xi'an New Year 2016: 11.45Shanghai Spring 2016: 11.40Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 11.64Xi'an Summer 2016: 10.73One Night in Beijing 2016: 11.77Hefei Open 2016: 10.91Jinhua Open 2016: 10.43Yangzhou Open 2016: 10.28Asian Championship 2016: 10.08XJTU Open 2016: 11.21Xi'an New Year 2017: 10.82ZUA Open 2017: 11.77Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 10.36Nanjing Spring 2017: 10.88Wuhan NxN Open 2017: 10.44China Championship 2017: 10.62Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 9.75Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 12.19Shantou Open 2017: 11.83Xuchang Open 2017: 9.60Hefei Open 2017: 11.70XPU Open 2017: 10.69Nanchang Open 2017: 11.36WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 8.68Chongqing Open 2017: 11.27Xi'an New Year 2018: 11.13Shanghai Winter 2018: 11.59Hubei University Shahu Spring 2018: 10.28Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018: 10.84Luoyang Spring 2018: 10.40Chengdu Open 2018: 10.62Weihai Open 2018: 10.65HUST Open 2018: 10.39Nanchang Dragon-boat Open 2018: 10.26Shenzhen Open 2018: 9.42Longyan Open 2018: 10.26WCA Asian Championship 2018: 11.12China Championship 2018: 9.85Lanzhou Autumn 2018: 9.33Xi'an Open 2018: 11.15Hangzhou Open 2018: 10.70WHUT Open 2018: 10.08Singapore Cube Championship 2019: 11.43Wuhan Open 2019: 10.19WCA World Championship 2019: 10.77China Championship 2019: 10.53Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.57Guangdong Open 2021: 9.98Tokai Challenge Alpha 2024: 11.87Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 9.448.5713.6529 Jul 20121 Nov 2024

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as she improves.