People · China
Yifan Liu (刘轶凡)
3×3 · top 10.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025LIUY23
Yifan Liu (刘轶凡) has been competing for 10 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.08, set at Ulanqab Small Cubes 2026, puts him in the top 10.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,189th in China. Across 5 competitions since November 2025, he has put 63 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.29 in November 2025 to 11.08, a 17% improvement. Yifan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 11.08 | 13.23 | top 10.7% | 4,189 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 4.97 | 6.37 | top 39.0% | 6,726 / 15,796 | |
| Clock | 13.77 | 16.89 | top 42.9% | 1,012 / 1,843 |
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
- 2 Nov 2025First competition: Xi'an Autumn 2025. A 14.27 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Ulanqab Small Cubes 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Xuzhou Zenith 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhengzhou Zest 2025 · 27 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Autumn 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Yongtao Sun (孙永涛) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 12 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yueqi Bai (白悦琦) — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.08 away.
- A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
Targets move as he improves.