People · China
Hongye Lin (林泓晔)
3×3 · top 9.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017LINH08
Hongye Lin (林泓晔) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.79, set at Beijing Spring PM 2021, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,933rd in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2017, he has put 85 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.87 in July 2017 to 10.79, a 22% improvement. Hongye 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 | 10.79 | 13.48 | top 9.9% | 3,933 / 28,499 | |
| 2×2 | 3.56 | 5.62 | top 21.0% | 3,492 / 15,939 | |
| 4×4 | 51.82 | 59.72 | top 27.1% | 2,889 / 5,999 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.29 | 9.17 | top 30.3% | 3,373 / 10,269 | |
| 5×5 | 1:39.77 | 1:45.19 | top 35.3% | 1,620 / 2,857 |
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
- 2 Jul 2017First competition: Quanzhou Open 2017. A 13.87 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025
- Beijing Spring PM 2021 · 4 Apr 2021 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Spring Special 2021 · 3 Apr 2021
- Xiamen Open 2019 · 4 May 2019
- Fujian Championship 2018 · 12 May 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Xiamen Autumn 2017 · 15 Oct 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Quanzhou Open 2017 · 2 Jul 2017
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.
- Baiqiang Dong (董百强) — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Daoming Ye (叶道明) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Chenge Liu (刘晨舸) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.