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Zixiang Yan (颜子翔)

2×2 · top 17.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016YANZ02

Zixiang Yan (颜子翔) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.30, set at Heilongjiang Colleges Open 2017, puts him in the top 17.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,874th in China. Across 4 competitions since May 2016, he has put 63 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.60 in May 2016 to 13.34, a 20% improvement. Zixiang has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 17.8% of 186,767 all-time
3.30
signature single · Heilongjiang Colleges Open 2017
63
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
2×23.306.87
top 17.8%2,874 / 15,796
3×313.3417.25
top 18.6%7,255 / 28,153
Skewb5.8611.47
top 24.7%1,530 / 5,004
4×456.851:03.84
top 32.9%3,297 / 5,926
Pyraminx8.539.97
top 40.8%4,394 / 10,224
5×51:58.442:01.13
top 48.3%2,047 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed37.09
early days — 2 solves4,923 / 5,922

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

Shanghai Songjiang Open 2016: 16.60Heilongjiang Colleges Open 2017: 13.34Longyan Open 2018: 15.81Luoyang Spring 2024: 16.8613.3416.8614 May 201610 Mar 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.