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Yu Tang (唐语)

4×4 · top 0.78% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017TANG35

Yu Tang (唐语) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 25.32, set at Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020, puts him in the top 0.78% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 70th in China. Until January 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since November 2017, he has put 1,414 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.49 in November 2017 to 6.53, a 38% improvement. Yu has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.78% of 83,917 all-time
25.32
signature single · Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020
1,414
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×425.3229.84
top 0.78%70 / 5,926
3×36.538.48
top 0.88%329 / 28,153
5×548.5554.39
top 1.4%56 / 2,816
2×21.332.19
top 1.5%171 / 15,796
Megaminx40.9446.75
top 1.8%38 / 1,678
7×72:19.692:30.59
top 2.3%40 / 1,261
6×61:35.671:40.77
top 3.0%53 / 1,349
3×3 one-handed13.1214.97
top 4.6%410 / 5,922

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

Nanjing Autumn 2017: 10.49Hangzhou Spring 2018: 6.53Nanjing Spring 2018: 8.98China Championship 2018: 9.61Xi'an Open 2018: 8.84Nanjing Autumn 2018: 8.31Inner Mongolia Winter 2019: 7.67Xianyang Open 2019: 8.39Hefei Spring 2019: 9.56Yancheng Spring 2019: 8.11Hefei Summer 2019: 8.85Huzhou Open 2019: 9.09China Championship 2019: 8.11Suzhou Open 2019: 8.17Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.41Shandong Open 2019: 9.45Nanning Open 2019: 7.78Nanjing Autumn 2019: 7.52Shaoxing Open 2019: 8.36Jieyang Winter 2020: 9.10Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 7.94Jieyang Good Afternoon 2021: 8.54Shaoxing Afternoon 2021: 7.38Guangdong Open 2021: 7.166.5310.494 Nov 20171 May 2021

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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.