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Xingyan Ding (丁醒炎)

3×3 blindfolded · top 2.3% of 12,178 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014DING02

Xingyan Ding (丁醒炎) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 22.83, set at Xuzhou Newcomers 2025, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in China. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since July 2014, he has put 764 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.00 in July 2014 to 7.91, a 44% improvement. Xingyan has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 2.3% of 12,178 all-time
22.83
signature single · Xuzhou Newcomers 2025
764
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 blindfolded22.8333.39
top 2.3%33 / 1,183
3×37.919.48
top 2.6%950 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed14.7417.24
top 7.6%735 / 5,922
2×22.574.13
top 9.6%1,445 / 15,796
5×51:07.521:19.77
top 9.9%488 / 2,816
Pyraminx4.556.26
top 10.5%1,249 / 10,224
4×439.8246.46
top 11.9%1,279 / 5,926
Clock8.1810.00
top 16.1%347 / 1,843
Megaminx1:14.001:19.51
top 18.0%543 / 1,678
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves33.00
top 20.4%216 / 1,058
Square-120.9327.99
top 30.0%510 / 1,362
Skewb6.668.66
top 31.0%1,896 / 5,004
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 5 cubes · 22:38—
early days — 1 solve99 / 278
7×75:03.475:32.16
top 51.6%906 / 1,261
6×63:36.813:49.47
top 57.5%1,051 / 1,349
4×4 blindfolded15:01.00—
early days — 1 solve127 / 149

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

Suzhou Open 2014: 14.00Hefei Summer Open 2014: 14.05Nantong Open 2014: 12.66Hangzhou Winter Open 2014: 11.46Nanjing Spring 2015: 12.09Hefei Open 2015: 11.54Wuxi Open 2015: 9.67China Championship 2015: 10.03Nanjing Autumn 2015: 10.11Nanjing Spring 2016: 10.14Hefei Open 2016: 9.76Shantou Open 2016: 11.49Asian Championship 2016: 10.53Wuhan Open 2016: 10.08Zhenjiang Open 2016: 11.22Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2021: 8.73Kunshan Morning 2021: 10.27Hangzhou Spring 2024: 9.55Kunshan Open 2024: 7.91Xi'an Open 2024: 10.37Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 8.667.9114.0512 Jul 201421 Sep 2024

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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 2.83 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.