People · China
Yutao Xue (薛宇韬)
3×3 one-handed · top 4.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019XUEY01
Yutao Xue (薛宇韬) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 12.84, set at Xuzhou Open PM 2021, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 367th in China. Until January 2010, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2019, he has put 100 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 15.53 in May 2019 to 12.84, a 17% improvement. Yutao has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.84 | 16.00 | top 4.2% | 367 / 5,922 | |
| 3×3 | 12.46 | 13.43 | top 15.5% | 6,086 / 28,153 | |
| Skewb | 4.67 | 9.44 | top 15.7% | 974 / 5,004 | |
| 4×4 | 49.61 | 52.96 | top 24.2% | 2,587 / 5,926 | |
| 5×5 | 1:30.33 | 1:38.42 | top 27.6% | 1,270 / 2,816 | |
| 2×2 | 4.59 | 6.89 | top 34.1% | 5,844 / 15,796 | |
| Megaminx | 1:40.66 | 1:54.44 | top 35.0% | 1,035 / 1,678 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 May 2019First competition: Xuzhou Spring 2019. A 14.26 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Huzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open PM 2021 · 16 May 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Shanghai Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Wuxi Open 2019 · 10 Aug 2019
- Huzhou Open 2019 · 13 Jul 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Spring 2019 · 1 May 2019
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.
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
- Xingkai Yin (尹星凯) — met in 12 rounds, never finished ahead
- Qi Zhou (周祺) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
Targets move as he improves.