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Irene Qin

3×3 · top 12.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023QINI01

Irene Qin has been competing for 3 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.68, set at Warm Up Seattle 2025, puts her in the top 12.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,848th in the United States. Across 21 competitions since October 2023, she has put 371 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.31 in October 2023 to 11.68, a 40% improvement. Irene has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.8% of 284,439 all-time
11.68
signature single · Warm Up Seattle 2025
371
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.6812.97
top 12.8%6,848 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.266.25
top 14.8%3,885 / 28,708
2×23.324.26
top 18.0%7,054 / 40,951
Skewb6.218.37
top 27.4%4,480 / 18,907
4×458.591:21.38
top 34.9%5,624 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed27.2638.10
top 40.0%5,332 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves47.00
top 51.8%1,101 / 2,040
Megaminx2:27.012:56.99
top 59.8%4,503 / 7,841
Clock23.3629.90
top 73.3%6,371 / 8,927
Square-11:12.38—
early days — 2 solves6,085 / 6,743
5×53:59.35—
early days — 2 solves8,680 / 9,401

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

Lakewood Fall 2023: 19.31SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 17.58Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 16.82Kenmore Mini C 2024: 15.71Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 14.07Kent Spring 2024: 15.40Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 12.64CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 12.64Tacoma Summer 2024: 12.00Kent Summer 2024: 12.55Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 13.60Lakewood Fall 2024: 13.87Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 12.46Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 12.76Warm Up Seattle 2025: 11.68Kent Fall 2025: 12.2411.6819.3114 Oct 202322 Nov 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.68 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as she improves.