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Chan Hay Yin (陳希言)

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015YINC01

Chan Hay Yin (陳希言) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 21 moves, set at Hong Kong FMC Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Hong Kong, China. Across 53 competitions since August 2015, he has put 2,233 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.83 in August 2015 to 8.05, a 55% improvement. Chan has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 1.5% of 12,294 all-time
21 moves
signature single · Hong Kong FMC Championship 2025
2,233
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingHong Kong, China
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves36.00
top 1.5%4 / 76
3×38.0510.76
top 2.9%85 / 1,347
4×430.5035.35
top 3.1%31 / 423
2×21.783.56
top 3.5%46 / 855
Pyraminx3.305.61
top 4.7%34 / 431
Skewb3.055.27
top 5.2%23 / 285
5×559.831:06.93
top 5.4%24 / 192
Square-19.7815.35
top 5.7%21 / 126
Megaminx53.191:01.25
top 6.6%22 / 154
Clock5.987.92
top 7.2%26 / 156
6×61:50.582:00.89
top 7.4%19 / 87
7×72:56.063:05.54
top 9.5%20 / 74
3×3 one-handed16.4920.53
top 11.3%67 / 361
3×3 blindfolded1:16.801:27.82
top 18.4%20 / 65
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 10 cubes · 45:05—
top 22.3%6 / 25
4×4 blindfolded9:10.32—
early days — 3 solves8 / 15
5×5 blindfolded27:05.00—
early days — 1 solve7 / 7

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

Hong Kong Summer Cube Day 2015: 17.83Arnold Classic Asia 2016: 14.33Hong Kong Cube Day 2017: 14.50Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 11.48Hong Kong Open 2017: 11.24China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 10.77GDSY Open 2018: 12.06Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 9.70Shenzhen Open 2018: 11.88Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 8.05Hong Kong Cube Day 2019: 12.26Maru Cube Day 2019: 11.33Shenzhen Cubing 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.07Shenzhen Open 2019: 10.18Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2019: 10.74Hong Kong Cube Day 2023: 10.02Cube Camp in Kaeng Krachan 2023: 10.96Hong Kong Small Cube Day 2023: 10.14Selangor Ace Cube 2023: 11.68Maru Cube Day 2023: 10.26Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.68Hong Kong Championship 2023: 10.56Taiwan Championship 2023: 8.89UoSM Cube Open 2024: 8.71Welcome Back Hong Kong 2024: 12.15Cube Camp in Nakhon Nayok 2024: 9.92Taipei Summer Open 2024: 11.36Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 9.23Tokai Spring 2025: 9.64Taipei Summer Open 2025: 9.64HKRCU 20th Anniversary 2025: 10.11Lawton OKtoberfest 2025: 10.28Hong Kong Championship 2025: 11.63Taiwan Championship 2025: 12.11Katano Spring 2026: 12.47Odd Day in Hong Kong 2026: 8.37Kanto Spring 2026: 10.358.0517.8322 Aug 201517 May 2026

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.