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Yuanming Liu (刘元铭)

Pyraminx · top 2.9% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017LIUY16

Yuanming Liu (刘元铭) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.77, set at Coconut Island Open 2017, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 341st in China. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since August 2017, he has put 108 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Yuanming has entered two competitions.

Pyraminx
best event — top 2.9% of 129,321 all-time
2.77
signature single · Coconut Island Open 2017
108
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx2.774.83
top 2.9%341 / 10,224
3×39.1410.63
top 5.2%1,983 / 28,153
4×434.3040.90
top 6.1%616 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed14.3517.16
top 6.8%658 / 5,922
2×23.233.34
top 17.0%2,726 / 15,796
Megaminx1:17.421:24.63
top 20.2%607 / 1,678
Skewb5.797.95
top 24.2%1,493 / 5,004

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

Coconut Island Open 2017: 9.74Nanning Open 2018: 9.149.149.746 Aug 201728 Jul 2018

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 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.