Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞)'s 2016 Annual Summary

Year

In the past year (2016), Rui-Jun Liu (劉睿鈞) competed in 17 competitions and 160 rounds across 13 events, from Jan 31st to Dec 18th.

Records

He broke 7 records, and all were NRs.

Event	Single	Average	Competition	Round	Detail
3x3x3 Fewest Moves
	NR 29	NR 33.00	Taiwan Blind Day 2016	Final	29 30 40
Square-1
		NR 10.68	Cube Camp in Kanazawa 2016	Final	11.88 10.96 10.47 10.61 10.44
	NR 8.05		All is Well 2016	Final	12.30 14.73 8.05 14.16 12.57
		NR 10.71	All is Well 2016	First round	8.97 14.68 10.21 9.36 12.55
		NR 10.89	Big Cubes Challenge 2016	Final	12.37 12.07 9.76 10.33 10.28
	NR 8.81		Hsinchu Winter Open 2016	Final	8.81 13.47 12.00 12.34 12.62

He has been on the podium 16 times across 5 events, including 9 golds, 3 silvers, and 4 bronzes.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Square-1	8	1
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	1		1
6x6x6 Cube		1
7x7x7 Cube		1
Pyraminx			3

He attempted 741 solves and completed 739.

He broke his personal best 28 times across 8 events, including 11 singles and 17 averages.

Event	Times	Single	Average
7x7x7 Cube	5	2	3
Square-1	5	2	3
5x5x5 Cube	4	0	4
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	4	3	1
3x3x3 Cube	3	1	2
2x2x2 Cube	3	2	1
4x4x4 Cube	2	1	1
6x6x6 Cube	2	0	2

Event	≤2015	2016	Improvement
Square-1	10.19	8.05	2.14 (26.58%)
2x2x2 Cube	2.44	1.96	0.48 (24.49%)
7x7x7 Cube	3:56.24	3:28.28	27.96 (13.42%)
3x3x3 Cube	9.59	9.08	0.51 (5.62%)
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	30	29	1 (3.45%)
4x4x4 Cube	36.91	36.84	0.07 (0.19%)

Event	≤2015	2016	Improvement
7x7x7 Cube	4:22.48	3:39.52	42.96 (19.57%)
Square-1	12.06	10.68	1.38 (12.92%)
5x5x5 Cube	1:23.27	1:17.03	6.24 (8.10%)
3x3x3 Cube	11.74	10.91	0.83 (7.61%)
6x6x6 Cube	2:39.32	2:29.66	9.66 (6.45%)
2x2x2 Cube	4.75	4.55	0.20 (4.40%)
4x4x4 Cube	44.63	43.23	1.40 (3.24%)
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	33.00	33.00	-

He met 889 cubers from 20 countries/regions, 198 of whom competed with him more than once.

He competed in 4 countries/regions.

In China, he visited 9 cities while competing.