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Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏)

2×2 · top 0.59% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2009 · 2009LAIY01

Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏) has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.02, set at Taichung Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.59% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13th in Chinese Taipei. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 73 competitions since May 2009, he has put 2,313 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.56 in May 2009 to 6.85, a 70% improvement. He has entered 73 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.59% of 186,767 all-time
1.02
signature single · Taichung Open 2024
2,313
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
2×21.021.81
top 0.59%13 / 1,669
3×36.858.88
top 1.2%60 / 4,213
4×432.1637.42
top 4.3%115 / 1,078
5×558.871:07.31
top 5.0%77 / 639
6×61:57.682:06.98
top 10.1%56 / 292
7×73:08.763:27.18
top 13.0%66 / 252
3×3 one-handed17.6521.50
top 14.2%193 / 802
Skewb7.0111.66
top 33.7%320 / 699
Pyraminx10.1613.31
top 54.3%657 / 1,016
Megaminx2:16.582:35.14
top 54.6%260 / 362
Square-144.9147.76
top 70.9%254 / 323
Clock22.9325.32
top 72.3%291 / 366

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

Taiwan Spring Open 2009: 22.56Taiwan Winter Open 2010: 17.83Taiwan Spring Open 2010: 17.22Taiwan Summer Open 2010: 10.65Taiwan Spring Open 2011: 12.05Cubik Box Cup 2011: 10.21United States National Championships 2011: 11.69Taiwan Summer Open 2012: 9.74Taiwan Winter Open 2013: 11.05Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 9.85Hsinchu Winter Open 2013: 10.34Hsinchu Spring Open 2014: 7.36All is Well 2015: 9.21Hsinchu Spring Open 2015: 9.37Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 9.44Taipei Open 2015: 8.78Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 9.25Taichung Cube Open 2016: 6.85Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 8.60Taiwan Championship 2016: 8.71Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 9.76Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2017: 6.99Taiwan Championship 2017: 7.50Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 8.78Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 8.93CK Cubing Party 2018: 8.49WCA Asian Championship 2018: 7.96Taipei Winter Open 2018: 9.90Taiwan Championship 2018: 8.10Taipei Peace Open 2019: 10.05Taichung Cubing Open 2019: 8.98HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 9.59Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 9.16WCA World Championship 2019: 8.32Dream One Cube Open 2019: 7.47Taiwan Championship 2019: 7.19Taiwan Championship 2020: 8.19CK Cubing Party 2022: 10.11Taiwan Championship 2022: 8.89Taichung Open 2023: 8.98Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.34Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 7.58Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 8.14Taiwan Championship 2023: 8.70HCHS Winter Open 2024: 8.26Taichung Open 2024: 8.77Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 9.68Zhongshan Open 2024: 8.09Taipei Summer Open 2024: 8.33Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 8.72Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2024: 8.93Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 9.13Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 7.59Taiwan Championship 2024: 8.72BQHS Spring Open 2025: 7.84Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 7.83Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 7.86Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 8.24Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 8.45Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 6.97Taiwan Championship 2025: 8.97BQHS Spring Open 2026: 7.96Zhongshan Open 2026: 7.18Taipei Cube Open 2026: 7.54Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 7.58Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 8.29Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 9.91Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 8.116.8522.5631 May 200930 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.