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Yen-An Chen (陳彥安)

Square-1 · top 0.16% of 25,272 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019CHEY31

Yen-An Chen (陳彥安) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.65, set at Taipei Summer Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Chinese Taipei. Until September 2020, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 52 competitions since September 2019, he has put 2,711 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.51 in September 2019 to 6.07, a 61% improvement. He has entered 52 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.16% of 25,272 all-time
4.65
signature single · Taipei Summer Open 2025
2,711
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Square-14.656.06
top 0.16%2 / 323
2×20.901.51
top 0.38%7 / 1,669
5×542.8749.92
top 0.42%12 / 639
4×423.6627.13
top 0.43%16 / 1,078
3×36.077.81
top 0.53%23 / 4,213
Megaminx34.0837.51
top 0.56%3 / 362
7×72:14.642:22.74
top 1.7%13 / 252
6×61:29.401:35.71
top 1.8%16 / 292
Clock3.814.68
top 2.0%11 / 366
Pyraminx2.994.19
top 3.6%52 / 1,016
3×3 one-handed13.5918.24
top 5.4%70 / 802
Skewb3.705.32
top 8.9%106 / 699
3×3 blindfolded1:33.101:52.15
top 24.2%36 / 147
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves35.67
top 30.0%66 / 204
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 8:26—
early days — 1 solve30 / 54

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

Matsu Open 2019: 15.51Taiwan Championship 2019: 10.96Maru Cube Day 2022: 7.59Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 8.10Yunlin Winter Open 2022: 7.75Taiwan Championship 2022: 7.26Taichung Open 2023: 7.61CK Cubing Party 2023: 7.60Maru Cube Day 2023: 7.03Pingtung Summer Open 2023: 7.18Visayas Championship 2023: 7.73Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 7.33Taiwan Championship 2023: 7.38Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 6.60HCHS Winter Open 2024: 6.99Taichung Open 2024: 7.11Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 7.66Zhongshan Open 2024: 7.52Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 7.21Taipei Summer Open 2024: 7.19Philippine Championship 2024: 8.05Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 6.31Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 8.05Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 7.90Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 6.83Taiwan Championship 2024: 7.03Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 8.21BQHS Spring Open 2025: 6.90Zhongshan Open 2025: 7.32Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 6.12Taipei Summer Open 2025: 7.03Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 6.46Korea Open 2025: 6.24Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 6.07Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 7.60Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 7.34Taiwan Championship 2025: 7.17Shin Kong Cube Open - Taitung 2025: 7.64Penghu Spring Cube Open 2026: 7.23Zhongshan Open 2026: 7.05Taipei Cube Open 2026: 7.03Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 7.23Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 7.456.0715.517 Sep 20199 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-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.