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Xinnan Ye (叶新楠)

3×3 · top 13.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2009 · 2009YEXI01

Xinnan Ye (叶新楠) has been competing for 17 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.85, set at Beijing Open 2015, puts her in the top 13.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,277th in China. Across 33 competitions since October 2009, she has put 412 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.25 in October 2009 to 11.85, a 38% improvement. Xinnan has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.4% of 284,439 all-time
11.85
signature single · Beijing Open 2015
412
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×311.8514.29
top 13.4%5,277 / 28,153
Square-115.3622.08
top 17.2%268 / 1,362
4×446.2451.62
top 19.8%2,144 / 5,926
Clock9.8412.00
top 24.3%547 / 1,843
Pyraminx7.8012.06
top 34.5%3,784 / 10,224
2×25.556.06
top 45.9%7,851 / 15,796
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
top 51.8%610 / 1,058
3×3 one-handed32.6538.50
top 52.6%4,481 / 5,922
Skewb30.06—
early days — 1 solve4,851 / 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

Guangdong Open 2009: 19.25Guangzhou Summer Vacation 2011: 14.90Guangzhou Winter 2011: 15.15Guangdong Open 2012: 12.43Asian Championship 2012: 16.80Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Day 2013: 16.17Guangzhou SCAU Open 2013: 13.56World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 14.97Guangdong Open 2013: 13.64Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 14.50Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 16.46Nanchang Open 2015: 14.23Beijing Open 2015: 11.85Asian Championship 2016: 12.47Taiwan Championship 2017: 13.40Dongguan Open 2018: 12.37Dongguan Open 2019: 13.18Doncaster Open 2020: 14.16Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 15.81Zhuhai Open 2025: 14.12Jiangmen Open 2025: 14.87Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 14.78Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 13.0811.8519.251 Oct 20096 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.85 away.
  • A sub-15 Square-1 single — 4,160 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as she improves.