People · China
Ruifan Yuan (袁瑞钒)
3×3 · top 1.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2021 · 2021YUAN04
Ruifan Yuan (袁瑞钒) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.76, set at Zibo Open 2025, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 394th in China. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2021, he has put 80 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.04 in May 2021 to 6.76, a 48% improvement. Ruifan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.76 | 8.30 | top 1.1% | 394 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.36 | 3.36 | top 7.6% | 1,092 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.01 | 30.77 | top 39.4% | 3,647 / 5,922 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Mar 2024First sub-10 3×3: 8.07 at Xuzhou Open 2024.
- 30 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Open 2024.
- 2 May 2021First competition: Kunshan Morning 2021. A 13.04 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Singapore Championship 2026 · 20 Feb 2026
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
- Xuzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Kunshan Morning 2021 · 2 May 2021
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.
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
- Qixian Cao (曹岂娴) — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead once
- Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
Targets move as he improves.