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Chiou Hau Yie

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017YIEC01

Chiou Hau Yie has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.47, set at WA State Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in Malaysia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since December 2017, he has put 135 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.55 in December 2017 to 7.47, a 40% improvement. Chiou has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.47
signature single · WA State Championship 2025
135
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×37.479.05
top 1.9%84 / 3,773
3×3 one-handed11.3715.28
top 2.2%28 / 1,327
2×22.272.81
top 6.8%163 / 2,541
4×442.8344.65
top 15.5%250 / 1,219
Skewb6.368.20
top 28.6%357 / 1,053

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

Malaysian Cube Championship 2017: 12.55STEM Cube Open Kuala Lumpur 2019: 9.22Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 9.64Penang Cube Open 2022: 8.63WA State Championship 2025: 7.477.4712.5530 Dec 201713 Sep 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.