People · China
Xingyi Yao (姚星屹)
3×3 · top 0.23% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025YAOX01
Xingyi Yao (姚星屹) has been competing for 10 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.46, set at Hefei Cubing League 3x3 IV 2026, puts him in the top 0.23% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 100th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since October 2025, he has put 90 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.56 in October 2025 to 5.46, a 28% improvement. Xingyi has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% 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 | 5.46 | 6.75 | top 0.23% | 100 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 0.94 | 2.63 | top 0.45% | 39 / 15,796 | |
| Skewb | 4.61 | 5.62 | top 15.3% | 942 / 5,004 |
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
- 25 Oct 2025First competition: Hefei Open 2025. A 7.56 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Wuhu Open 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Hefei Cubing League 3x3 IV 2026 · 1 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hefei Open 2025 · 25 Oct 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 his.
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Handi Huang (黄翰迪) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Ziyi Lu (陆梓熠) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.