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Ganghui Lin (林刚辉)

4×4 · top 0.17% of 83,917 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014LING04

Ganghui Lin (林刚辉) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 21.82, set at Shhicago V 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in China. Until October 2015, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since August 2014, he has put 2,236 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.68 in August 2014 to 6.24, a 47% improvement. Ganghui has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.17% of 83,917 all-time
21.82
signature single · Shhicago V 2026
2,236
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
4×421.8225.06
top 0.17%20 / 5,926
3×36.247.13
top 0.64%236 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed10.1312.75
top 1.1%104 / 5,922
5×547.5450.45
top 1.2%41 / 2,816
6×61:37.011:43.13
top 3.4%63 / 1,349
2×21.762.69
top 3.4%439 / 15,796
7×72:32.492:42.30
top 4.1%80 / 1,261
Skewb3.706.04
top 8.9%515 / 5,004
Pyraminx4.466.10
top 10.0%1,188 / 10,224
Megaminx1:03.221:13.41
top 11.6%316 / 1,678
Clock10.2513.61
top 26.4%605 / 1,843
Square-120.6632.94
top 29.4%501 / 1,362
3×3 blindfolded2:15.42
top 38.4%560 / 1,183

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

Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 11.68Nanjing Spring 2016: 8.71Hangzhou Autumn 2016: 8.81Wenzhou Open 2017: 7.99Fuzhou Autumn 2017: 8.22SJTU Open 2018: 7.33Zhangzhou Open 2018: 8.15Longyan Open 2018: 8.31China Championship 2018: 7.40Chengdu Winter Open 2018: 7.84Chongqing Open 2018: 6.75Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019: 7.74Chengdu Open 2019: 8.15China Championship 2019: 7.86Taizhou Open 2019: 7.61Xi'an New Year 2020: 7.91Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021: 7.62Eastwood Cubing 2024: 7.71Bulldog Winter 2024: 7.37Happy Valley Spring 2024: 7.53Plum Puzzles 2024: 7.06Green Spring 2024: 7.06Barberton Mini 1 2024: 7.14Green Summer 2024: 6.24Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 6.59Dublin Ohio Summer PM 2024: 7.35Y-Perms Near the Y-Bridge Zanesville 2024: 6.85Green Fall 2024: 6.65Fast in Fayette 2024: 7.16A Buffalo Cube Day 2024: 7.12Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 7.27CubeChella 2024: 6.89Ohio State Nearly New Years 2024: 6.49Pittsburgh Winter 2025: 6.68Presidential Puzzles in PA 2025: 7.10Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.77Fredonia Finals 2025: 8.02Locked in Clocked in Coshocton 2025: 6.84Axemann Fall 2025: 6.76Northern Tier Twist 2025: 6.66New Martinsville Newcomers 2026: 6.47Cube Against Cancer Pittsburgh 2026: 6.46OberliNxN 2026: 6.30Northern Tier Twist 2026: 6.42Axemann Summer 2026: 6.68Ohio State Summer Warm Up 2026: 6.49Kids America Coshocton Cube Clash 2026: 6.95Tartan Twist PA 2026: 6.596.2411.689 Aug 201429 Aug 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.

  • Xavier Ye — met in 148 rounds, finished ahead 118 times
  • Sean Cutshaw — met in 147 rounds, finished ahead 106 times
  • Gabriel Gowman — met in 132 rounds, finished ahead 119 times

Next targets

  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 1.82 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.