People · Canada
Brian Yin
3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022YINB02
Brian Yin has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.08, set at Pickering Favourites Spring 2025, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 484th in Canada. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since December 2022, he has put 253 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.40 in January 2023 to 9.08, a 45% improvement. Brian has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.08 | 11.06 | top 5.1% | 484 / 10,392 | |
| 2×2 | 2.83 | 4.23 | top 12.3% | 820 / 7,173 | |
| 4×4 | 44.40 | 50.19 | top 17.5% | 443 / 3,118 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.77 | 9.41 | top 18.3% | 747 / 4,858 | |
| Skewb | 6.85 | 11.09 | top 32.5% | 800 / 2,907 | |
| 5×5 | 2:13.07 | 2:15.05 | top 57.1% | 753 / 1,499 | |
| 6×6 | 4:45.39 | — | top 78.5% | 469 / 665 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 52 moves | 57.00 | early days — 3 solves | 244 / 283 |
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
- 3 May 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.08 at Pickering Favourites Spring 2025.
- 3 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Pickering Favourites Spring 2025.
- 1 Oct 2023Three personal bests in one day at Pickering Favourites Fall 2023.
- 19 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.82 at Waterloo Favourites B 2023.
- 3 Dec 2022First competition: FMC Canada 2022.
Competitions
- Pickering Favourites Spring 2025 · 3 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Greater Toronto 2025 · 9 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Ontario Championship 2024 · 9 Aug 2024
- Greater Toronto 2024 · 18 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Scarborough Fall B 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Fall B 2023 · 22 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pickering Favourites Fall 2023 · 1 Oct 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Ajax 3x3x3 Morning 2023 · 26 Aug 2023
- Appleby Summer A 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Southern Ontario Summer - Oshawa 2023 · 24 Jun 2023
- Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering A 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Waterloo Favourites B 2023 · 19 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Appleby Winter B 2023 · 8 Jan 2023
- FMC Canada 2022 · 3 Dec 2022
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.
- Weston Law — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 7 times · head to head
- Abdullah Gulab — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
- Morgan Yeh — met in 38 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.08 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
Targets move as he improves.