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Zining Liu (柳子宁)

3×3 · top 30.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017LIUZ17

Zining Liu (柳子宁) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.78, set at Wuhan Chuyun Spring 2019, puts him in the top 30.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,094th in China. Across 9 competitions since November 2017, he has put 49 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.23 in November 2017 to 16.78, a 61% improvement. Zining has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.3% of 284,439 all-time
16.78
signature single · Wuhan Chuyun Spring 2019
49
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×316.7821.07
top 30.3%11,094 / 28,153

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

WHU Rubik's Cube Days 2017: 43.23HUST Open 2018: 28.11Qianjiang Summer Open 2018: 21.11Wuhan University Open 2018: 19.91WIT Open 2018: 20.40WHUT Open 2018: 21.96Wuhan Chuyun Spring 2019: 16.78China Championship 2019: 17.71Wuhan Autumn 2019: 20.1416.7843.2325 Nov 201713 Oct 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.