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Yanqing He (何延青)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.53% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025HEYA01

Yanqing He (何延青) has been competing for 8 months. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.05, set at Zhangzhou Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.53% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 43rd in China. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since December 2025, he has put 90 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 10.33 in December 2025 to 9.05, a 12% improvement. Yanqing has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.53% of 73,695 all-time
9.05
signature single · Zhangzhou Open 2026
90
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed9.0511.78
top 0.53%43 / 5,922
3×38.599.78
top 3.9%1,491 / 28,153
4×444.6150.73
top 17.8%1,930 / 5,926

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

Zhengzhou Zest 2025: 10.33Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 10.36Zhangzhou Open 2026: 9.05Weihai Open 2026: 11.07Wuhu Open 2026: 10.11Shanghai Summer 2026: 12.859.0512.8527 Dec 20251 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.