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Yixi Li (李懿汐)

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016LIYI06

Yixi Li (李懿汐) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.77, set at Inner Mongolia Winter 2019, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,656th in China. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since October 2016, he has put 131 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.17 in October 2016 to 9.77, a 26% improvement. Yixi has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.77
signature single · Inner Mongolia Winter 2019
131
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.7710.74
top 6.8%2,656 / 28,153
2×22.784.67
top 11.8%1,821 / 15,796
Pyraminx5.508.22
top 16.4%1,925 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed20.6823.24
top 22.4%2,233 / 5,922
4×452.5256.86
top 27.8%2,908 / 5,926
Skewb8.729.90
top 46.5%2,695 / 5,004
5×51:57.012:14.74
top 47.4%2,022 / 2,816
Megaminx2:09.322:26.99
top 50.8%1,322 / 1,678
3×3 blindfolded4:08.05
early days — 1 solve960 / 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

Asian Championship 2016: 13.17Ningxia Open 2017: 11.07Ningxia Open 2018: 11.10Lanzhou Autumn 2018: 11.65Inner Mongolia Winter 2019: 9.77Ningxia Open 2019: 9.879.7713.171 Oct 201618 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.