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Ziyue Liao (廖梓跃)

4×4 · top 20.7% of 83,917 all-time · competing since July 2013 · 2013LIAO03

Ziyue Liao (廖梓跃) has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 46.94, set at Shantou Open 2014, puts him in the top 20.7% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,232nd in China. Across 5 competitions since July 2013, he has put 143 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Ziyue has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 20.7% of 83,917 all-time
46.94
signature single · Shantou Open 2014
143
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×446.9450.24
top 20.7%2,232 / 5,926
Pyraminx6.318.03
top 22.3%2,543 / 10,224
3×314.7318.28
top 23.5%8,934 / 28,153
5×51:27.751:36.58
top 25.5%1,185 / 2,816
2×24.105.23
top 27.8%4,713 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed24.5438.68
top 33.0%3,166 / 5,922
Skewb7.3619.29
top 36.4%2,197 / 5,004
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves38.33
early days — 3 solves409 / 1,058
7×75:30.73
early days — 1 solve1,005 / 1,261
Square-11:03.28
early days — 2 solves1,302 / 1,362

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

Shantou Open 2013: 4.10Shantou Open 2014: 5.38Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 4.43Cube of Prime Numbers 2015: 4.81Shantou Open 2015: 4.974.105.3819 Jul 20132 Aug 2015

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 6.94 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.