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Yufei Gao (高宇飞)

Skewb · top 9.1% of 73,281 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015GAOY03

Yufei Gao (高宇飞) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 3.73, set at Xianyang Open 2019, puts him in the top 9.1% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 533rd in China. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since November 2015, he has put 534 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.29 in November 2015 to 10.69, a 62% improvement. Yufei has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 9.1% of 73,281 all-time
3.73
signature single · Xianyang Open 2019
534
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Skewb3.735.66
top 9.1%533 / 5,004
3×310.6912.84
top 9.5%3,729 / 28,153
2×22.634.41
top 10.2%1,549 / 15,796
4×444.5049.06
top 17.7%1,914 / 5,926
Square-115.5818.74
top 17.7%278 / 1,362
Pyraminx6.428.86
top 23.2%2,644 / 10,224
Clock12.3114.49
top 36.4%871 / 1,843
5×51:44.531:59.99
top 38.8%1,747 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed29.4634.56
top 45.4%4,045 / 5,922
7×76:26.21
early days — 1 solve1,118 / 1,261
6×64:39.85
early days — 1 solve1,252 / 1,349

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

Xi'an Open 2015: 28.29Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 21.00Xi'an Summer 2016: 16.94Asian Championship 2016: 15.84XJTU Open 2016: 13.04Xi'an New Year 2017: 14.46Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 14.41Lanzhou Spring 2017: 11.95Luoyang Open 2017: 13.68China Championship 2017: 13.94XPU Open 2017: 13.65Xi'an New Year 2018: 12.65Lanzhou Open 2018: 12.45Baoji Open 2018: 11.55Xianyang Open 2019: 11.74Lanzhou Spring 2019: 11.17Xi'an New Year 2020: 10.6910.6928.2929 Nov 20151 Jan 2020

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-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.