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Xiaoyi Lin (林小懿)

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023LINX01

Xiaoyi Lin (林小懿) has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Jiangmen Open 2025, puts her in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,280th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 41 competitions since March 2023, she has put 835 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.18 in March 2023 to 8.35, a 51% improvement. Xiaoyi has entered 41 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Jiangmen Open 2025
835
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.3510.33
top 3.4%1,280 / 28,153
Pyraminx3.214.56
top 4.4%530 / 10,224
2×22.403.06
top 8.0%1,152 / 15,796
4×436.5445.17
top 8.2%848 / 5,926
Square-111.2512.51
top 8.4%125 / 1,362
3×3 blindfolded47.78—
top 9.2%142 / 1,183
Skewb3.805.62
top 9.6%558 / 5,004
5×51:27.871:32.08
top 25.6%1,189 / 2,816
Clock10.6712.88
top 28.4%662 / 1,843

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

Hong Kong Cube Day 2023: 17.18STEM Cube Open Penang 2023: 14.12Medan Speedcube Challenge 2023: 12.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 12.06XMUM Cube Open 2023: 11.17Thailand Championship 2023: 12.71Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 11.74Changsha Open 2023: 11.96Shenzhen Open 2023: 10.54Hangzhou Spring 2024: 11.86Nanchang Spring 2024: 11.19Guiyang Open 2024: 8.96Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 11.51Vietnam Championship 2024: 12.26Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024: 10.91Guilin Open 2024: 10.19Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 10.28Shenzhen Open 2024: 12.19Hangzhou Open 2024: 10.29gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025: 10.45Hong Kong Cube Day 2025: 9.56Zhuhai Open 2025: 10.80Jiangmen Open 2025: 8.35Guilin Open 2025: 8.90Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 11.60Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 8.80Zhuhai Pi Day 2026: 9.15Foshan Open 2026: 10.50Maoming Open 2026: 11.41Zhanjiang Open 2026: 10.808.3517.184 Mar 20239 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as she improves.