People · Australia
Chiyun Lin
3×3 · top 6.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023LINC07
Chiyun Lin has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.62, set at Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 593rd in Australia. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since July 2023, he has put 260 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.87 in July 2023 to 9.62, a 67% improvement. Chiyun has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.62 | 10.82 | top 6.5% | 593 / 11,943 | |
| 2×2 | 3.28 | 4.04 | top 17.6% | 1,353 / 8,727 | |
| Square-1 | 16.43 | 34.82 | top 19.7% | 190 / 920 | |
| Clock | 9.90 | 10.49 | top 24.4% | 289 / 1,159 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.90 | 27.65 | top 28.6% | 649 / 2,685 | |
| 4×4 | 54.58 | 59.76 | top 30.3% | 807 / 3,108 | |
| Skewb | 9.19 | 16.25 | top 49.8% | 1,616 / 3,589 | |
| 5×5 | 2:05.47 | — | top 52.8% | 732 / 1,412 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.39 | 14.08 | top 56.0% | 3,326 / 6,109 | |
| Megaminx | 2:19.59 | — | top 56.3% | 725 / 1,313 |
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
- 30 Nov 2024Three personal bests in one day at Melbourne Cube Days 2024.
- 5 Oct 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.62 at Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024.
- 2 Mar 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.86 at Altona Algorithms 2024.
- 19 Jan 2024First sub-20 3×3: 16.47 at Melbourne Summer 2024.
- 19 Jan 2024Three personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2024.
- 1 Jul 2023First competition: Victorian Open 2023. A 28.87 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- VIC State Championship 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024 · 5 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2023 · 11 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2023 · 14 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cranbourne Spring Saturday 2023 · 9 Sep 2023
- Victorian Open 2023 · 1 Jul 2023
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.
- Jordan Carswell — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Roman Rudakov — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead once
- Oliver Drew — met in 55 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
Targets move as he improves.