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Cheng-Wei Lin

3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022LINC02

Cheng-Wei Lin has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.73, set at Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 406th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since May 2022, he has put 610 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.70 in May 2022 to 9.73, a 53% improvement. He has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.73
signature single · Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024
610
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×39.7312.36
top 6.7%406 / 4,213
2×23.645.15
top 21.9%543 / 1,669
Skewb5.577.84
top 22.5%227 / 699
Pyraminx6.368.20
top 22.7%335 / 1,016
3×3 one-handed23.0929.47
top 29.0%378 / 802
4×456.771:07.64
top 32.8%565 / 1,078
Clock13.8118.45
top 43.0%197 / 366
Megaminx2:14.47—
top 53.5%256 / 362
5×52:19.11—
top 60.5%503 / 639
Square-138.3648.22
top 63.3%234 / 323
6×65:55.57—
early days — 1 solve279 / 292
7×79:42.73—
early days — 1 solve248 / 252

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

Puzzles at Wisconsin Spring 2022: 20.70Milwaukee First 2022: 21.74UIUC Spring 2023: 17.40Swallow Spring 2023: 21.18West Side Cube Clash 2023: 17.16OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 16.94Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2023: 20.27Green Bay 2023: 19.37Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 15.09Muske-GO 2024: 15.49Chicago Area Twist Spring B 2024: 15.40Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024: 9.73Kenosha First A 2024: 13.364x4 by Four Madison Lakes 2024: 13.71Skewb on the Madison Snow 2025: 12.42Door County Cube Challenge 2025: 10.40CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 12.76Wisconsin Championship 2025: 10.863x3 in Madison 2026: 10.579.7321.7428 May 20228 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 1.73 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.