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Yuanxing Gao (高元兴)

3×3 · top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018GAOY04

Yuanxing Gao (高元兴) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at WIT Open 2018, puts him in the top 9.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,830th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since March 2018, he has put 348 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.03 in March 2018 to 10.78, a 37% improvement. Yuanxing has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.8% of 284,439 all-time
10.78
signature single · WIT Open 2018
348
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×310.7812.89
top 9.8%3,830 / 28,153
Skewb4.445.81
top 14.0%849 / 5,004
4×442.8648.42
top 15.6%1,688 / 5,926
Pyraminx5.439.02
top 16.0%1,876 / 10,224
5×51:22.201:31.86
top 20.8%995 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed20.2225.67
top 21.1%2,096 / 5,922
2×23.914.80
top 25.3%4,274 / 15,796
Clock10.5313.07
top 27.6%644 / 1,843
7×73:54.324:14.88
top 28.6%562 / 1,261
6×62:41.152:47.43
top 31.4%669 / 1,349
Square-121.5724.80
top 31.5%534 / 1,362
Megaminx1:44.491:50.66
top 37.3%1,092 / 1,678
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves57.67
early days — 3 solves864 / 1,058

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

Hubei University Shahu Spring 2018: 17.03Changsha Xiangmo 2018: 17.05HUST Open 2018: 14.98Guilin Open 2018: 12.69Beijing Summer 2018: 13.37China Championship 2018: 13.20WIT Open 2018: 10.78Hangzhou Open 2018: 11.27China Championship 2019: 11.97Changsha Autumn 2019: 12.8910.7817.0525 Mar 201826 Oct 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 0.78 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.