People · China
Yifan Luo (骆奕帆)
3×3 · top 0.03% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2021 · 2021LUOY02
Yifan Luo (骆奕帆) has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.29, set at Deqing Small & Special 2026, puts him in the top 0.03% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23rd in China. Until May 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since May 2021, he has put 573 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 6.73 in May 2021 to 4.29, a 36% improvement. Yifan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 4.29 | 5.69 | top 0.03% | 23 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 7.92 | 11.11 | top 0.18% | 14 / 5,922 | |
| Pyraminx | 1.27 | 1.69 | top 0.2% | 19 / 10,224 | |
| 2×2 | 1.38 | 2.33 | top 1.6% | 193 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 32.96 | 37.28 | top 4.9% | 484 / 5,926 |
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
- 1 Nov 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024.
- 30 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Open 2024.
- 23 Dec 2023Three personal bests in one day at Changsha Open 2023.
- 25 Nov 2023Four personal bests in one day at Hefei Winter Open 2023.
- 2 May 2021First competition: Kunshan Morning 2021. A 8.51 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Deqing Small & Special 2026 · 26 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hefei Open 2025 · 25 Oct 2025
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Autumn 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Tianjin Open 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- Kunshan Open 2024 · 14 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Changsha Open 2023 · 23 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Hefei Winter Open 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Kunshan Morning 2021 · 2 May 2021 — 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.
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 11 times · head to head
- Lingkun Jiang (姜凌坤) — met in 59 rounds, finished ahead 14 times · head to head
- Zhiyi Yang (杨芝懿) — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 36 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.92 away.
Targets move as he improves.