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Yi-Hsun Lai (賴奕勳)

3×3 · top 9.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019LAIY03

Yi-Hsun Lai (賴奕勳) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.80, set at Taiwan Championship 2024, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 593rd in Chinese Taipei. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since December 2019, he has put 154 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.93 in December 2019 to 10.80, a 28% improvement. He has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.9% of 284,439 all-time
10.80
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2024
154
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×310.8012.82
top 9.9%593 / 4,213
4×440.4250.89
top 12.6%280 / 1,078
Skewb4.457.40
top 14.1%152 / 699
2×24.004.95
top 26.5%634 / 1,669
5×51:29.901:41.79
top 27.2%303 / 639
Clock10.8011.96
top 29.1%130 / 366
Pyraminx8.4710.96
top 40.3%534 / 1,016
3×3 one-handed29.93
early days — 2 solves555 / 802
Square-135.1244.29
top 58.6%221 / 323
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves
early days — 2 solves172 / 204

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

Taiwan Championship 2019: 14.93Welcome Back Taipei 2021: 13.97Taiwan Championship 2022: 13.16CK Cubing Party 2023: 12.51Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 14.59Taiwan Championship 2024: 10.8010.8014.9313 Dec 20196 Dec 2024

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.