People · Australia
Yichen Rui
3×3 · top 9.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023RUIY01
Yichen Rui has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 889th in Australia. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2023, he has put 89 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 6 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.47 in January 2023 to 10.78, a 52% improvement. Yichen has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.78 | 12.64 | top 9.9% | 889 / 11,943 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.66 | 9.47 | top 25.1% | 1,282 / 6,109 | |
| 2×2 | 4.05 | 5.10 | top 27.2% | 2,141 / 8,727 |
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
- 20 May 2023First sub-20 3×3: 13.15 at Marrickville Many May Open 2023.
- 20 May 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.15 at Marrickville Many May Open 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023First competition: Cubing at The Cube Saturday 2023. A 22.47 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tramsheds IV: Summer Saturday 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Tramsheds II: May Sunday 2024 · 19 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kogarah Cube Day Sunday 2024 · 14 Apr 2024
- Sydney Summer 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at Tramsheds Sunday 2023 · 27 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Marrickville Many May Open 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at The Cube Saturday 2023 · 21 Jan 2023
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.
- Nathan Adams — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
- Bryan Eng — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Cass Hopkins — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 26,233 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
Targets move as he improves.