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Yi-Jen Hsueh (薛以仁)

4×4 · top 0.14% of 85,040 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016HSUE02

Yi-Jen Hsueh (薛以仁) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 21.37, set at BQHS Spring Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.14% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6th in Chinese Taipei. Until June 2017, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 61 competitions since July 2016, he has put 1,961 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.96 in July 2016 to 5.75, a 56% improvement. He has entered 61 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.14% of 85,040 all-time
21.37
signature single · BQHS Spring Open 2026
1,961
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
4×421.3724.18
top 0.14%6 / 1,079
3×35.756.85
top 0.36%15 / 4,369
5×542.5645.74
top 0.39%10 / 640
Megaminx36.5840.96
top 0.88%8 / 363
6×61:28.581:36.12
top 1.7%14 / 293
7×72:33.232:43.95
top 4.4%27 / 252
2×22.303.62
top 7.1%189 / 1,671
Square-125.1534.69
top 39.6%160 / 323
3×3 blindfolded2:51.764:57.73
top 50.1%77 / 149

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

Maru Cube Day 2016: 12.96Taiwan Championship 2016: 10.77Taipei Open 2017: 10.78Maru Cube Day 2017: 8.49Lanyang Open 2017: 9.57Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 10.16Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 9.46Maru X 2018: 9.12WCA Asian Championship 2018: 9.35Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 8.09Taiwan Championship 2018: 8.71Taipei Peace Open 2019: 7.51Taichung Cubing Open 2019: 8.50Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 7.93Maru Cube Day 2019: 7.89Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019: 8.48Lanyang Open 2019: 8.19Taiwan Championship 2019: 9.42Zhuyuangang Open 2020: 9.13Maru Cube Day 2021: 7.89Taiwan Open 2022: 7.51Kaohsiung Winter Open 2022: 7.83CK Cubing Party 2022: 6.86Maru Cube Day 2022: 6.86Taichung Open 2023: 8.18CK Cubing Party 2023: 7.33Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 7.28Maru Cube Day 2023: 6.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.89Pingtung Summer Open 2023: 6.87Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 7.05Taiwan Championship 2023: 6.72Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 7.34HCHS Winter Open 2024: 6.23Taichung Open 2024: 7.33Zhongshan Open 2024: 6.14Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 6.74Philippine Championship 2024: 7.64Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 7.66Taiwan Championship 2024: 6.11Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 7.16BQHS Spring Open 2025: 6.65Zhongshan Open 2025: 7.01Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 6.54Taipei Summer Open 2025: 6.83Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 7.00Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 7.29Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 7.25Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 6.38Taiwan Championship 2025: 6.14BQHS Spring Open 2026: 7.05Zhongshan Open 2026: 6.90Taipei Cube Open 2026: 7.22Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 7.52Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 7.54Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026: 5.75Shin Kong Cube Open - Hualien 2026: 7.055.7512.969 Jul 201620 Sep 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-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.