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Franklin Y. Yuan

3×3 one-handed · top 0.63% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022YUAN07

Franklin Y. Yuan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.25, set at New Zealand Nationals 2025, puts him in the top 0.63% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in New Zealand. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2022, he has put 993 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.29 in September 2022 to 7.23, a 41% improvement. Franklin has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.63% of 73,695 all-time
9.25
signature single · New Zealand Nationals 2025
993
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×3 one-handed9.2512.30
top 0.63%11 / 600
3×37.239.07
top 1.6%51 / 2,095
Clock4.195.13
top 2.7%23 / 303
Pyraminx2.835.32
top 3.1%64 / 1,141
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves32.33
top 4.0%7 / 111
2×22.162.93
top 5.9%134 / 1,615
Skewb3.417.26
top 7.2%64 / 666
4×437.5544.34
top 9.3%82 / 722
5×51:15.451:22.61
top 15.7%63 / 355
6×62:16.642:28.59
top 18.8%37 / 149
Megaminx1:24.241:40.22
top 24.5%91 / 283
Square-119.6822.93
top 27.3%82 / 251
7×74:07.014:13.89
top 33.4%52 / 126
3×3 blindfolded2:04.75—
top 35.0%49 / 86

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

Opawa Open 2022: 12.29Lyttelton Spring 2022: 10.81Cashmere Open 2023: 9.63NZ South Island Championship 2023: 10.66Lyttelton Spring 2023: 9.98New Zealand Nationals 2023: 10.67Lyttelton Summer 2024: 8.48Lyttelton Newcomer Rumble 2024: 9.06Fast Solves in Fendalton 2024: 8.92Quick Solving at Cobham 2024: 7.78Oamaru Open 2024: 9.45Keep Christchurch Quirky 2024: 9.12New Zealand Nationals 2024: 7.23New Zealand Nationals 2025: 7.547.2312.2910 Sep 202212 Dec 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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.25 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.