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Zhi-Xuan Liu (劉至軒)

2×2 · top 5.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014LIUZ08

Zhi-Xuan Liu (劉至軒) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.05, set at Big Cubes Challenge 2016, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 136th in Chinese Taipei. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since December 2014, he has put 246 official solves on the record across seven 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 20.37 in December 2014 to 11.01, a 46% improvement. He has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.05
signature single · Big Cubes Challenge 2016
246
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 standingChinese Taipei
2×22.054.50
top 5.1%136 / 1,669
Skewb3.815.26
top 9.6%116 / 699
3×311.0112.31
top 10.5%629 / 4,213
3×3 one-handed21.2025.29
top 23.8%309 / 802
4×454.851:01.94
top 30.6%541 / 1,078
5×51:56.582:09.67
top 47.1%442 / 639
6×65:17.84
early days — 1 solve277 / 292

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

Hsinchu Winter Open 2014: 20.37Maru Cube for Kids Day 2015: 17.38Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 14.43Taichung Cube Open 2016: 13.50Maru Cube Day 2016: 13.72Taiwan Championship 2016: 12.80Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 11.44Maru X 2018: 11.01UIUC Fall 2022: 11.9611.0120.3714 Dec 201429 Oct 2022

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.