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Zhimei Liu (刘智美)

3×3 · top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022LIUZ04

Zhimei Liu (刘智美) has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.78, set at August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023, puts her in the top 13.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,180th in China. Across 12 competitions since July 2022, she has put 246 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 32.42 in July 2022 to 11.78, a 64% improvement. Zhimei has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time
11.78
signature single · August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023
246
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.7813.17
top 13.1%5,180 / 28,153
Pyraminx6.207.05
top 21.5%2,456 / 10,224
2×24.296.95
top 30.2%5,183 / 15,796
4×454.791:00.95
top 30.5%3,102 / 5,926
5×51:45.541:53.36
top 39.6%1,774 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed30.1039.19
top 46.9%4,125 / 5,922
Clock16.3017.49
top 52.9%1,236 / 1,843
6×63:44.174:48.33
top 60.2%1,083 / 1,349
7×75:39.27
top 62.4%1,029 / 1,261
Skewb11.4917.21
top 63.5%3,437 / 5,004
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves
top 68.6%807 / 1,058

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

Stevenage Summer 2022: 32.42Lincoln Summer 2022: 28.84Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 20.83Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 20.04Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023: 17.78Stevenage June 2023: 17.34August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 11.78Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 13.73Stevenage December 2024: 12.1411.7832.429 Jul 20227 Dec 2024

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.78 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as she improves.