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Lilyn Ma

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014MALI04

Lilyn Ma has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.11, set at Mi'Lyon Open 2025, puts her in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 104th in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 47 competitions since May 2014, she has put 1,313 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:20.26 in May 2014 to 7.11, a 91% improvement. Lilyn has entered 47 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.11
signature single · Mi'Lyon Open 2025
1,313
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×37.119.75
top 1.5%104 / 4,746
Pyraminx2.624.37
top 2.5%67 / 2,148
2×21.874.15
top 4.0%170 / 3,074
3×3 one-handed16.1621.70
top 10.6%185 / 1,490
4×439.5945.69
top 11.6%226 / 1,817
Megaminx1:09.371:19.70
top 15.2%117 / 867
Clock12.6015.53
top 37.8%261 / 714
Skewb10.3315.08
top 56.9%761 / 1,291
6×64:55.465:10.44
early days — 3 solves339 / 437
3×3 blindfolded7:52.62—
early days — 2 solves408 / 434

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

French Championship 2014: 1:20.26France 2015: 43.08Lyon Megaminx Open 2015: 32.58Chambéry Cube Open 2015: 34.59Ugine Jeu et Jouet 2015: 27.71Lyon Christmas Open 2015: 25.14French Championship 2016: 17.37Lyon Megaminx Open 2016: 20.73Belfort Open 2016: 18.65Annecy Open 2016: 16.27Chambéry Cube Open 2016: 14.97Ugine Jeu et Jouet 2016: 16.13Only Cube Open 2017: 17.22French Championship 2017: 18.12Barby Cube 73 2017: 15.28Aix-en-Provence Open 2017: 14.54World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 12.60Barby Cube 73 Open Automne 2017: 13.07Toulon Open 2017: 15.42Ugine Jeu et Jouet 2017: 14.12Chambéry Cube 2018: 14.38French Championship 2018: 11.35L'Open du Berry 2018: 12.99Just Cube Open 2019: 13.13Barby Cube 2019: 11.44Lyon Last Layer Open 2023: 12.96Only Oullins Open 2024: 10.89French Championship 2024: 12.83Open de Marseille 2024: 11.64Barby Cube 2024: 9.98Cournonsec Open 2024: 9.96Camargue Open 2024: 9.20Barby Cube Autumn 2024: 8.51Sorg'Open 2024: 9.73Lyon Last Layer 2025: 8.94Charantonnay Cube Clash 2025: 9.35French Championship 2025: 9.99Barby Cube 2025: 9.06Mi'Lyon Open 2025: 7.11Ensuès Open 2025: 8.49Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2025: 8.66Cœur de Cube Charantonnay 2026: 8.06French Championship 2026: 9.15Barby Cube 2026: 9.20Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2026: 8.937.111:20.2610 May 201422 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.62 away.

Targets move as she improves.