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Zhengyi Liu (刘正一)

3×3 · top 17.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015LIUZ01

Zhengyi Liu (刘正一) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.07, set at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018, puts him in the top 17.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,920th in China. Across 9 competitions since April 2015, he has put 82 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.80 in April 2015 to 13.07, a 70% improvement. Zhengyi has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.7% of 284,439 all-time
13.07
signature single · Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018
82
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×313.0715.10
top 17.7%6,920 / 28,153
Skewb5.007.67
top 18.1%1,127 / 5,004
Pyraminx11.3613.20
top 63.0%6,425 / 10,224
3×3 blindfolded3:56.215:10.94
early days — 3 solves925 / 1,183

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 Cherry Blossom 2015: 43.80Xi'an Summer 2016: 37.66Xi'an Open 2016: 18.65Asian Championship 2016: 16.82XJTU Open 2016: 13.35Xi'an New Year 2017: 14.45Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 14.29Xi'an New Year 2018: 13.11Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018: 13.0713.0743.804 Apr 20156 Apr 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.