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Tina Xiangyan Jin (金香延)

Square-1 · top 3.0% of 25,662 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015JINX01

Tina Xiangyan Jin (金香延) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 7.94, set at Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023, puts her in the top 3.0% of the 25,662 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in China. Until November 2013, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since October 2015, she has put 741 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 16.21 in October 2015 to 9.54, a 41% improvement. Tina has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 3.0% of 25,662 all-time
7.94
signature single · Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023
741
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Square-17.949.83
top 3.0%39 / 1,373
3×3 one-handed13.7018.97
top 5.6%542 / 5,994
3×39.5411.37
top 6.2%2,459 / 28,499
2×22.644.99
top 10.4%1,606 / 15,939
Pyraminx5.0614.31
top 13.5%1,626 / 10,269
4×441.9350.89
top 14.5%1,596 / 5,999
Megaminx1:19.331:28.35
top 21.3%660 / 1,693
5×51:30.101:46.04
top 27.5%1,293 / 2,857
Clock16.5117.16
top 53.7%1,274 / 1,887
3×3 blindfolded3:54.27—
early days — 3 solves919 / 1,184

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

China Championship 2015: 16.21Beijing Open 2015: 14.50Nub Open 2016: 13.36St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 11.94Poly Cubed 2016: 11.97Asian Championship 2016: 10.96ZUA Open 2017: 11.28Taiyuan Open 2017: 10.55Beijing Open 2017: 12.10China Championship 2017: 10.19Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 9.75Changchun Open 2018: 10.37Beijing Summer 2018: 10.48China Championship 2018: 11.84China Championship 2019: 10.74Beijing Winter 2019: 11.88Pretzel Mania 2023: 10.71Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.79Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.19Northampton Fall A 2023: 9.58Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 9.54South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 10.07Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 9.78Beijing Winter 2025: 10.27Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 11.15Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 10.26Beijing Winter 2026: 9.58Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 11.21Penn Cube Day Fall 2026: 11.519.5416.212 Oct 201510 Oct 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-6 Square-1 single — 210 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 1.70 away.

Targets move as she improves.