People · United States
Taylor Yu
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 33.6% of 12,418 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025YUTA02
Taylor Yu has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 36 moves, set at Minnesota Quiet Championship 2026, puts her in the top 33.6% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 746th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since March 2025, she has put 109 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 24% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 43.33 in March 2025 to 26.38, a 39% improvement. Taylor has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 36 moves | 43.00 | top 33.6% | 746 / 2,059 | |
| 3×3 | 26.38 | 30.10 | top 55.6% | 33,272 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 10.46 | 14.73 | top 57.8% | 10,712 / 19,164 | |
| 2×2 | 7.47 | 9.46 | top 64.1% | 26,847 / 41,674 | |
| Megaminx | 3:28.18 | — | top 83.2% | 6,767 / 8,026 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 6:06.87 | — | early days — 1 solve | 1,843 / 2,128 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 1:08.72 | — | top 88.4% | 13,644 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 2:39.09 | — | early days — 1 solve | 18,197 / 19,354 | |
| Pyraminx | 20.74 | 25.55 | top 93.8% | 27,859 / 29,168 |
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
- 15 Jun 2025First sub-30 3×3: 27.04 at Minnesota Slice 2025.
- 8 Mar 2025First competition: Solve La Crosse 2025. A 43.33 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Minnesota Quiet Championship 2026 · 11 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- FMC World 2026 · 20 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer Minnesota 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2026 · 31 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- FMC under the Mistletoe 2025 · 20 Dec 2025
- Madison MistletOH 2025 · 20 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubetcha MN 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Clock on the Madison Rocks 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025
- Minnesota Slice 2025 · 15 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Solve La Crosse 2025 · 8 Mar 2025
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.
- Carter Kucala — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lisa Kucala — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Brian Johnson — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-25 3×3 single — 151,957 people have one; it is 1.38 away.
- A sub-10 Skewb single — 40,788 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
Targets move as she improves.