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Yu Gu (谷雨)

3×3 · top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013GUYU01

Yu Gu (谷雨) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.46, set at North Plainfield Open 2018, puts him in the top 8.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,446th in China. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since April 2013, he has put 921 official solves on the record across eleven 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 22.27 in April 2013 to 10.46, a 53% improvement. Yu has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.46
signature single · North Plainfield Open 2018
921
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
3×310.4612.14
top 8.8%3,446 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed16.1620.08
top 10.6%1,035 / 5,922
2×23.285.27
top 17.5%2,831 / 15,796
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves39.33
top 23.4%244 / 1,058
Skewb7.5312.08
top 37.7%2,255 / 5,004
Pyraminx8.199.68
top 37.8%4,102 / 10,224
3×3 blindfolded2:15.312:33.00
top 38.4%558 / 1,183
4×41:03.581:12.18
top 40.2%3,886 / 5,926
Clock20.9226.66
top 67.3%1,472 / 1,843
Square-152.91—
top 78.6%1,239 / 1,362
Megaminx3:28.96—
top 83.3%1,613 / 1,678

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

Zhengzhou Spring Open 2013: 22.27Xi'an Summer 2013: 23.43Vancouver Open Winter 2014: 17.03Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2014: 17.62Zhengzhou Open 2014: 15.05Nanjing Autumn 2014: 16.08BUAA Open 2014: 17.81Xi'an More Coffee 2014: 16.53Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2015: 15.58Wuhan Open 2015: 17.07Zhengzhou Open 2015: 15.47Hefei Open 2015: 14.92China Championship 2015: 14.93Beijing Open 2015: 14.85Xi'an Open 2015: 13.08Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 14.31Xi'an Open 2016: 12.20Melbourne Cube Days 2016: 12.78POPS Open 2016: 11.97Sydney Championship 2016: 12.52New York City Winter 2017: 13.08Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 11.96New York City Winter 2018: 12.87Howdy Partner 2018: 12.76Rutgers Spring 2018: 13.51New York City Spring 2018: 13.55North Plainfield Open 2018: 10.46CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 11.83Kew Forest Open 2018: 10.72New York City Fall 2018: 12.90Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 12.57Brooklyn 2019: 12.6510.4623.4330 Apr 201325 May 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.