People · China
Ziwei Yuan (袁子为)
4×4 blindfolded · top 10.1% of 2,174 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018YUAN10
Ziwei Yuan (袁子为) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 3:21.74, set at Please Be Quiet Xi'an 2024, puts him in the top 10.1% of the 2,174 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23rd in China. Across 13 competitions since April 2018, he has put 272 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 10 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.62 in April 2018 to 11.12, a 40% improvement. Ziwei has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4×4 blindfolded | 3:21.74 | — | early days — 2 solves | 23 / 149 | |
| 3×3 | 11.12 | 13.47 | top 10.9% | 4,245 / 28,153 | |
| 5×5 | 1:14.50 | 1:33.49 | top 14.9% | 726 / 2,816 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.45 | 25.78 | top 21.7% | 2,159 / 5,922 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:26.74 | — | top 21.9% | 303 / 1,183 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.50 | 8.02 | top 23.8% | 2,709 / 10,224 | |
| 4×4 | 49.46 | 54.74 | top 24.0% | 2,557 / 5,926 | |
| 2×2 | 3.95 | 5.83 | top 25.9% | 4,353 / 15,796 | |
| Skewb | 7.60 | 14.23 | top 38.3% | 2,281 / 5,004 | |
| 6×6 | 3:02.10 | 3:05.29 | top 42.1% | 827 / 1,349 | |
| 7×7 | 5:13.75 | 5:19.26 | top 55.1% | 945 / 1,261 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 May 2019Three personal bests in one day at Chengdu Open 2019.
- 13 Apr 2019Three personal bests in one day at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019.
- 8 Dec 2018First sub-15 3×3: 12.56 at Chongqing Open 2018.
- 29 Apr 2018First competition: Chengdu Open 2018. A 18.62 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Jiajiang Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Please Be Quiet Xi'an 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021 · 3 Jan 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Nanning Open 2019 · 19 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Yunnan Open 2019 · 6 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Guilin Open 2019 · 8 Jun 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Open 2019 · 1 May 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019 · 13 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Xianyang Open 2019 · 3 Mar 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Inner Mongolia Winter 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Chongqing Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Chengdu Winter Open 2018 · 24 Nov 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Open 2018 · 29 Apr 2018
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.
- Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Gang Ji (纪纲) — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Jiazhou Li (李佳洲) — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-3:00 4×4 blindfolded single — 172 people have one; it is 21.74 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
Targets move as he improves.