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Yubin Ye (叶煜彬)

3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2011 · 2011YEYU01

Yubin Ye (叶煜彬) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.62, set at Xiamen Open 2017, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 353rd in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since July 2011, he has put 239 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.18 in July 2011 to 6.62, a 56% improvement. Yubin has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time
6.62
signature single · Xiamen Open 2017
239
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.629.10
top 0.96%353 / 28,153
4×432.7638.47
top 4.8%470 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed13.9316.44
top 6.0%568 / 5,922
2×23.395.10
top 18.9%3,083 / 15,796
5×51:33.421:45.09
top 30.2%1,362 / 2,816

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

Xiamen Open 2011: 15.18Shanghai Summer 2012: 10.50TKK Open 2016: 9.19Quanzhou Open 2016: 8.86Xiamen Open 2017: 6.62Quanzhou Open 2017: 8.01Longyan Summer Open 2017: 8.07Quanzhou Side Event 2017: 8.86Xiamen Autumn 2017: 7.85Fujian Championship 2018: 8.40Xiamen Open 2018: 9.516.6215.1816 Jul 20119 Dec 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 2.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.