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Jintian Ye (叶锦天)

3×3 · top 0.089% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025YEJI01

Jintian Ye (叶锦天) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.82, set at Xi'an Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.089% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 45th in China. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since April 2025, he has put 109 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.78 in April 2025 to 4.82, a 38% improvement. Jintian has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.089% of 284,439 all-time
4.82
signature single · Xi'an Open 2026
109
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×34.825.60
top 0.089%45 / 28,153
2×22.353.81
top 7.5%1,077 / 15,796

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

Nanchang Spring 2025: 7.78Taizhou Open 2025: 6.66Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 5.12Nanchang Summer 2026: 4.96Xi'an Open 2026: 4.82Fuzhou Summer 2026: 5.354.827.7826 Apr 202523 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.