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Po-Ling Lin (林柏伶)

4×4 · top 5.8% of 83,917 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019LINP03

Po-Ling Lin (林柏伶) has been competing for 7 years. Her best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 33.93, set at BQHS Spring Open 2025, puts her in the top 5.8% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 147th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2010, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2019, she has put 541 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.13 in April 2019 to 9.60, a 58% improvement. She has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 5.8% of 83,917 all-time
33.93
signature single · BQHS Spring Open 2025
541
official solves on the record
9%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
4×433.9340.32
top 5.8%147 / 1,078
3×39.6010.60
top 6.4%381 / 4,213
2×22.354.51
top 7.5%202 / 1,669
3×3 blindfolded42.4256.01
top 7.5%11 / 147
5×51:07.921:14.05
top 10.2%159 / 639
Megaminx1:07.071:15.19
top 14.0%76 / 362
Skewb4.709.87
top 15.9%167 / 699
Pyraminx5.617.15
top 17.2%263 / 1,016
Clock8.7710.38
top 18.8%78 / 366
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 13 cubes · 50:30—
top 19.4%9 / 54
4×4 blindfolded6:14.516:35.72
top 31.3%9 / 24
5×5 blindfolded13:32.00—
early days — 2 solves6 / 13
6×63:05.43—
early days — 1 solve192 / 292
3×3 one-handed35.92—
top 58.9%655 / 802
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves54.33
top 76.8%163 / 204

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

Kunshan Open 2019: 23.13Huzhou Open 2019: 24.48China Championship 2019: 19.28Hangzhou Autumn 2019: 16.11Wuxi Winter 2019: 20.89Hangzhou Open AM 2021: 12.01Kunshan Afternoon 2021: 13.54Huzhou Open 2024: 9.88Kunshan Open 2024: 10.32Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024: 9.60Taiwan Championship 2024: 10.42Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 10.07BQHS Spring Open 2025: 9.97Zhongshan Open 2025: 10.91Taipei Summer Open 2025: 10.18Taiwan Championship 2025: 10.06Penghu Spring Cube Open 2026: 10.35BQHS Spring Open 2026: 9.79Taipei Cube Open 2026: 9.98Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 9.779.6024.4820 Apr 201918 Jul 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-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.93 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.60 away.

Targets move as she improves.