People · China
Yantong Bai (白炎桐)
3×3 · top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024BAIY01
Yantong Bai (白炎桐) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.74, set at Beijing Winter 2025, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,785th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since January 2024, he has put 35 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.23 in January 2024 to 10.74, a 12% improvement. Yantong has entered two competitions.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.74 | 12.83 | top 9.7% | 3,785 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 4.44 | 5.88 | top 32.2% | 5,510 / 15,796 | |
| 5×5 | 1:36.22 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,467 / 2,816 | |
| 4×4 | 56.78 | — | early days — 2 solves | 3,287 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 29.35 | — | early days — 2 solves | 4,031 / 5,922 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Beijing Winter 2025.
- 28 Jan 2024First competition: Fushun Open 2024. A 12.23 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Fushun Open 2024 · 28 Jan 2024
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.
- Yiming Liu (刘一鸣) — met in 9 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
- A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
Targets move as he improves.