People · China
Haochu Ye (叶浩初)
3×3 · top 0.32% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025YEHA01
Haochu Ye (叶浩初) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.68, set at Xianju NxN 2026, puts him in the top 0.32% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 134th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since March 2025, he has put 195 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.36 in March 2025 to 5.68, a 39% improvement. Haochu has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.68 | 7.26 | top 0.32% | 134 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.67 | 12.60 | top 2.6% | 231 / 5,994 | |
| 2×2 | 1.69 | 2.37 | top 3.1% | 387 / 15,939 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.72 | 7.52 | top 6.4% | 767 / 10,269 | |
| 4×4 | 34.66 | 43.84 | top 6.5% | 673 / 5,999 | |
| Skewb | 3.78 | 8.40 | top 9.5% | 556 / 5,030 |
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
- 7 Mar 2026Four personal bests in one day at Xianju NxN 2026.
- 15 Mar 2025First competition: Linhai Newcomers 2025. A 9.36 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xianju NxN 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Shenyang Autumn 2025 · 21 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Linhai Newcomers 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
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.
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 28 rounds, never finished ahead
- Chenggeng Jin (金诚庚) — met in 25 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- Guoyi Chen (陈果逸) — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 1.67 away.
Targets move as he improves.