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Maxim Boyan Lin

3×3 · top 0.71% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018LINM01

Maxim Boyan Lin has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.32, set at Saint John's Spring 2022, puts him in the top 0.71% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 471st in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since January 2018, he has put 774 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.46 in January 2018 to 6.32, a 66% improvement. Maxim has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.71% of 288,433 all-time
6.32
signature single · Saint John's Spring 2022
774
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 92% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.327.69
top 0.71%471 / 60,666
4×428.3233.99
top 1.9%329 / 19,354
5×551.5054.66
top 2.2%176 / 9,537
Pyraminx2.574.52
top 2.4%641 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed12.6718.60
top 4.0%588 / 15,900
2×21.872.97
top 4.0%1,600 / 41,674
6×61:45.971:58.03
top 5.9%206 / 4,262
Skewb3.365.41
top 6.9%1,084 / 19,164
Square-112.4119.71
top 10.8%765 / 6,846
Megaminx1:02.981:06.12
top 11.6%797 / 8,026
7×73:32.913:42.59
top 20.8%596 / 3,236
Clock10.6615.07
top 28.3%2,234 / 9,172

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

Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 18.46WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 13.73BU Spring 2018: 15.42Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 13.99Connect Community 2018: 16.60MIT Fall 2018: 14.69The Battle of Lexington 2018: 13.07Boston University Winter 2019: 10.75The Battle of Lexington 2019: 11.08Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 10.82Massachusetts Championship 2019: 9.91Providence Fall 2019: 9.74Saint John's Spring 2022: 6.32CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.15Granite State 2022: 9.18Puzzling in Providence 2023: 8.08Quick in Quincy 2023: 7.20WPI Winter 2024: 8.24Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 6.33Lexington Weeknights VI 2025: 7.56Wellesley Fall 2026: 7.266.3218.467 Jan 201819 Sep 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.

  • Derek White — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 45 times
  • Alex Cohen — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 68 times
  • Will Russo — met in 109 rounds, finished ahead 20 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 3.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.