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Yechen Yan (颜叶辰)

3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023YANY01

Yechen Yan (颜叶辰) has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.96, set at Zhengzhou Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 177th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since March 2023, he has put 1,203 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.69 in March 2023 to 5.96, a 44% improvement. Yechen has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time
5.96
signature single · Zhengzhou Open 2024
1,203
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×35.967.43
top 0.46%177 / 28,153
4×424.1129.21
top 0.52%47 / 5,926
Clock3.503.98
top 1.5%17 / 1,843
2×21.371.71
top 1.6%190 / 15,796
Skewb2.424.37
top 2.6%137 / 5,004
Pyraminx3.424.82
top 5.2%614 / 10,224
5×51:00.171:05.82
top 5.6%263 / 2,816
Megaminx57.521:05.30
top 8.7%216 / 1,678
3×3 one-handed15.7418.16
top 9.6%930 / 5,922
6×62:03.912:25.73
top 12.6%269 / 1,349
Square-113.4917.47
top 12.9%187 / 1,362
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves36.33
top 23.4%244 / 1,058
7×73:50.693:55.70
top 27.4%546 / 1,261

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

Hong Kong Cube Day 2023: 10.69Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 8.50Hefei Winter Open 2023: 7.44Kunshan Open 2024: 7.69Tianjin Open 2024: 6.21Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024: 6.99Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 6.62Zhengzhou Open 2024: 5.96Hangzhou Open 2024: 7.04Yancheng Open 2024: 7.38Singapore Championship 2025: 6.59Linhai Newcomers 2025: 6.92Nanchang Spring 2025: 7.35Yancheng Open 2025: 8.21Xi'an Summer 2025: 7.38Taizhou Open 2025: 6.55Jiangmen Open 2025: 7.68Ningbo Autumn 2025: 7.20Hefei Open 2025: 7.41Xuzhou Open 2025: 7.31Hangzhou Winter 2025: 6.46Beijing Winter 2026: 6.58Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 6.30Xianju Special 2026: 7.00Yancheng Spring Open 2026: 6.08Xuzhou Zenith 2026: 6.63Deqing Small & Special 2026: 6.84Shanghai Summer 2026: 6.41Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 6.865.9610.694 Mar 202322 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.