About My Name

The Chinese character of my first name is “浪”, which is not very common among Chinese people. It literally means “ocean wave” or “romantic” in Chinese. My last name “余” is a homophone of Chinese character “鱼(fish)”. So the two characters of my name make a good combination in Chinese :)

Timur Profile

I sometimes go by “Timur”. Since my first name “Lang” is not very easy to pronounce, my friends majoring in History came up with this nickname. It comes from “Timur Lang”, who was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire. Even though “Lang” means “lame” in Persian (“Timur Lang” translates to Timur the Lame), I found the nickname very cool and accepted it.

Tetris

Tetris Tutorial

I make tutorial videos on modern Tetris. Watch my videos on Bilibili or Youtube.

  • Episode 1: Overview of game mechanisms and random algorithms [bilibili]
  • Episode 2: Quantitative analysis of attack power and defense strategy [bilibili]
  • Episode 3: How to T-spin (Part 1) - [bilibili]

Pet

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I am a proud dog parent of my 3-year-old Akita. I love hiking and traveling with my dog.

Badminton

I was professionally trained for five years when I was in elementary school and middle school. I won the Men’s Single Champion in Uchicago 2019 tournament, and the Men’s Doubles Champion in Northwestern 2017 tournament.

Blog

I sometimes blog at Medium @timur-yu.