People · Australia
Cino Lin
3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022LINC03
Cino Lin has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.73, set at Sydney Spring Saturday 2024, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 620th in Australia. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since June 2022, he has put 315 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.90 in June 2022 to 9.73, a 59% improvement. Cino has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 9.73 | 11.63 | top 6.7% | 620 / 11,709 | |
| 2×2 | 3.02 | 4.23 | top 14.5% | 1,110 / 8,567 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.63 | 25.64 | top 19.5% | 439 / 2,659 | |
| 5×5 | 1:29.57 | 1:34.89 | top 26.9% | 365 / 1,356 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.89 | 11.07 | top 35.3% | 1,872 / 5,993 | |
| 7×7 | 5:00.37 | 5:22.54 | early days — 3 solves | 247 / 523 | |
| 4×4 | 1:14.95 | 1:21.28 | top 51.5% | 1,418 / 3,051 | |
| Skewb | 10.91 | 15.24 | top 60.3% | 1,996 / 3,534 |
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
- 16 Nov 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.73 at Sydney Spring Saturday 2024.
- 14 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at Kogarah Cube Day Sunday 2024.
- 10 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Simple Sydney Sunday 2023.
- 5 Mar 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.46 at North Sydney Cube Day 2023.
- 5 Mar 2023Four personal bests in one day at North Sydney Cube Day 2023.
- 12 Nov 2022First sub-20 3×3: 15.46 at Maitland Spring 2022.
Competitions
- Take Your Time Sydney 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tramsheds V: Autumn Saturday 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tramsheds IV: Summer Sunday 2025 · 9 Feb 2025
- Sydney Spring Saturday 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tramsheds III: August Saturday 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024 · 19 May 2024
- Kogarah Cube Day Sunday 2024 · 14 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Tramsheds I: Newcomer Saturday 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Sydney Summer 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Simple Sydney Sunday 2023 · 10 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023 · 16 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Marrickville Many May Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- North Sydney Cube Day 2023 · 5 Mar 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Maitland Spring 2022 · 12 Nov 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Even Better Sydney Gathering 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- NSW Open 2022 · 11 Jun 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.
- Bryan Eng — met in 58 rounds, never finished ahead
- James Kirschner — met in 53 rounds, never finished ahead
- Reyansh Gupta — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead twice
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 0.02 away.
Targets move as he improves.