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Pin-Shang Ye (葉品尚)

5×5 · top 4.2% of 40,792 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022YEPI01

Pin-Shang Ye (葉品尚) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 57.15, set at Taiwan Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 65th in Chinese Taipei. Until October 2011, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since January 2022, he has put 529 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.40 in January 2022 to 9.65, a 28% improvement. He has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 4.2% of 40,792 all-time
57.15
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2024
529
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
5×557.151:03.44
top 4.2%65 / 639
3×39.6512.97
top 6.5%395 / 4,213
7×72:45.112:57.70
top 6.6%34 / 252
4×436.8939.26
top 8.6%212 / 1,078
2×22.674.75
top 10.6%293 / 1,669
6×62:05.312:08.77
top 13.4%77 / 292
Clock9.1510.31
top 20.8%83 / 366
3×3 one-handed25.4629.03
top 35.4%452 / 802
Pyraminx8.4111.06
top 39.8%529 / 1,016
3×3 blindfolded3:35.044:17.76
top 62.3%102 / 147
Skewb12.4817.14
top 68.4%564 / 699

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

Taiwan Open 2022: 13.40Chiayi Open 2022: 13.68Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 13.53Taichung Open 2023: 12.33New Taipei Open 2023: 11.07Maru Cube Day 2023: 10.52Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 13.20Taiwan Championship 2023: 12.20HCHS Winter Open 2024: 12.51Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 13.55Zhongshan Open 2024: 12.50Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 11.72Taipei Summer Open 2024: 11.10Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 11.79Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 12.67Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 11.53Taiwan Championship 2024: 11.38BQHS Spring Open 2025: 11.65Zhongshan Open 2025: 10.62Taipei Summer Open 2025: 9.659.6513.6814 Jan 202228 Jun 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 7.15 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.