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Zhiyuan Liu

Pyraminx · top 12.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2017 · 2017LIUZ11

Zhiyuan Liu has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 4.84, set at Visayas Championship 2017, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,461st in China. Across 6 competitions since September 2017, he has put 138 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Zhiyuan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 12.2% of 129,321 all-time
4.84
signature single · Visayas Championship 2017
138
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx4.8411.62
top 12.2%1,461 / 10,224
3×311.6913.28
top 12.8%5,070 / 28,153
4×442.3048.04
top 14.9%1,608 / 5,926
2×23.314.24
top 17.9%2,901 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed26.2632.25
top 37.5%3,510 / 5,922
3×3 blindfolded8:23.28
early days — 1 solve1,173 / 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

Visayas Championship 2017: 12.64Cebu Speedcubing Year End 2017: 11.98Visayas Championship 2018: 11.69Cebu Masters 2018: 12.13Cebu Masters 2019: 12.47Cebu Speedcubing Year End 2019: 11.9511.6912.642 Sep 201721 Dec 2019

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-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.