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Hanrong Yu

3×3 · top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017YUHA03

Hanrong Yu has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.25, set at Afraid in Airdrie 2023, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,208th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since July 2017, he has put 156 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.80 in July 2017 to 8.25, a 67% improvement. Hanrong has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.25
signature single · Afraid in Airdrie 2023
156
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.259.95
top 3.2%1,208 / 28,153
2×22.233.99
top 6.5%920 / 15,796
4×443.0850.95
top 15.9%1,719 / 5,926
Pyraminx9.0310.75
top 45.1%4,800 / 10,224
Skewb9.3412.23
top 50.8%2,863 / 5,004

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

Southern Championships 2017: 24.80Beijing Summer 2019: 12.39Houston Winter 2020: 12.08Calgary Summer Classic 2023: 9.08Afraid in Airdrie 2023: 8.25Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 9.23New to Sherwood Park 2024: 9.05Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 8.788.2524.8015 Jul 201725 May 2024

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 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.