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Yunnan Li (李运南)

4×4 · top 8.1% of 83,917 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015LIYU06

Yunnan Li (李运南) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 36.42, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017, puts him in the top 8.1% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 834th in China. Until July 2010, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since November 2015, he has put 125 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.64 in November 2015 to 11.15, a 12% improvement. Yunnan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 8.1% of 83,917 all-time
36.42
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017
125
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×436.4240.66
top 8.1%834 / 5,926
3×311.1512.28
top 10.9%4,284 / 28,153
5×51:23.941:28.34
top 22.3%1,068 / 2,816
2×24.645.80
top 34.7%5,965 / 15,796
7×76:29.71
early days — 1 solve1,126 / 1,261

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: 12.64Xi'an New Year 2016: 14.74Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 12.08Xi'an Open 2016: 11.15Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 11.2911.1514.7429 Nov 20152 Apr 2017

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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.42 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.