People · China
Nan Yan (严楠)
3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025YANN02
Nan Yan (严楠) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.64, set at Chengdu Spring Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,503rd in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since February 2025, he has put 33 official solves on the record across four events. Nan has entered two competitions.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.64 | 11.27 | top 6.5% | 2,503 / 28,153 | |
| Megaminx | 59.34 | 1:07.15 | top 9.6% | 248 / 1,678 | |
| 5×5 | 1:10.89 | 1:18.47 | top 12.2% | 602 / 2,816 | |
| 6×6 | 2:31.67 | 2:40.32 | early days — 3 solves | 573 / 1,349 |
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 story so far
- 8 Feb 2025First competition: Chengdu Spring Open 2025. A 10.37 3×3 single to start from.
- 8 Feb 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.64 at Chengdu Spring Open 2025.
Competitions
- Deqing Spring 2025 · 19 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Spring Open 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Weikang Zheng (郑炜康) — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Yiming Lin (林伊铭) — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead once
- Ziyu Wu (吴子钰) — met in 7 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.64 away.
- A sub-50 Megaminx single — 1,776 people have one; it is 9.34 away.
Targets move as he improves.