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Xinyue Yuan (袁新玥)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.94% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017YUAN17

Xinyue Yuan (袁新玥) has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.83, set at Cube Camp in Suan Phueng 2025, puts her in the top 0.94% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 78th in China. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since December 2017, she has put 728 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.74 in December 2017 to 7.52, a 60% improvement. Xinyue has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.94% of 73,695 all-time
9.83
signature single · Cube Camp in Suan Phueng 2025
728
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed9.8314.86
top 0.94%78 / 5,922
3×37.528.58
top 2.0%717 / 28,153
2×21.693.05
top 3.0%377 / 15,796
4×431.6434.33
top 3.9%379 / 5,926
Pyraminx3.415.00
top 5.1%611 / 10,224
Clock5.827.65
top 6.7%131 / 1,843
Megaminx58.961:13.68
top 9.4%239 / 1,678
5×51:08.081:11.92
top 10.3%511 / 2,816
Skewb4.455.45
top 14.1%856 / 5,004
6×62:23.322:38.71
top 22.2%492 / 1,349
Square-118.3224.82
top 24.1%402 / 1,362
7×74:24.204:33.51
top 39.2%742 / 1,261
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 2 solves515 / 1,058

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

Chongqing Open 2017: 18.74Chengdu Open 2018: 12.36Chengdu Winter Open 2018: 10.51Chongqing Open 2018: 9.66Guiyang Open 2019: 11.00Chengdu Summer 2024: 8.28Xi'an Open 2024: 8.42Chongqing New Year 2025: 8.13Singapore Championship 2025: 9.34Luoyang Spring 2025: 8.21Yunnan Open 2025: 7.71Cube Camp in Suan Phueng 2025: 7.98Colombo CubeCon 2025: 7.52Thailand Championship 2025: 8.23Paradise Place Thailand Cube Open 2026: 8.107.5218.7430 Dec 201728 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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.52 away.

Targets move as she improves.