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Yan-Jou Lin (林彥州)

Skewb · top 2.0% of 74,164 all-time · competing since October 2011 · 2011LINY05

Yan-Jou Lin (林彥州) has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.23, set at Taiwan Championship 2018, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Chinese Taipei. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since October 2011, he has put 1,055 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.66 in October 2011 to 8.35, a 43% improvement. He has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 2.0% of 74,164 all-time
2.23
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2018
1,055
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Skewb2.234.51
top 2.0%20 / 700
3×38.3511.18
top 3.5%201 / 4,369
2×22.143.87
top 5.8%153 / 1,671
4×440.4847.99
top 12.7%284 / 1,079
5×51:22.511:33.89
top 21.3%254 / 640
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves40.00
top 23.5%52 / 205
Pyraminx7.2214.75
top 29.7%414 / 1,017
3×3 one-handed24.0625.27
top 31.7%402 / 805
Megaminx2:01.572:32.73
top 46.7%230 / 363
6×63:16.273:23.75
top 48.7%204 / 293
Square-131.2736.05
top 51.8%197 / 323
Clock16.6823.72
top 54.4%232 / 370
7×75:20.955:58.60
top 57.3%187 / 252
3×3 blindfolded4:27.25—
early days — 3 solves125 / 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

Taipei Open 2011: 14.66Taiwan Winter 2012: 17.08Taiwan Summer Open 2012: 12.74Magic Revenge 2012: 11.91Taiwan Winter Open 2013: 11.98Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 12.66Taiwan Summer Open 2014: 13.60All is Well 2015: 12.97Show Off Quickness 2015: 11.95Hsinchu Spring Open 2015: 11.65Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 10.25Taiwan Open 2015: 9.62Hsinchu Summer Open 2015: 10.36Magic Revenge 2015: 11.79Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 8.72Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 10.20Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 11.02Maru Cube Day 2016: 11.43Taiwan Championship 2016: 11.34Beijing Summer 2018: 10.38WCA Asian Championship 2018: 11.52Taipei Winter Open 2018: 10.12Taiwan Championship 2018: 10.67HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.38Maru Cube Day 2019: 9.01Matsu Open 2019: 11.33Taiwan Championship 2019: 11.05Maru Cube Day 2021: 11.32Taiwan Open 2022: 11.20Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 8.35Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 9.418.3517.088 Oct 201116 Sep 2023

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-2 Skewb single — 1,031 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.