People · China
Yifan Yuan (袁逸凡)
3×3 one-handed · top 0.41% of 73,695 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018YUAN08
Yifan Yuan (袁逸凡) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.74, set at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.41% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in China. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since April 2018, he has put 481 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.33 in April 2018 to 5.97, a 55% improvement. Yifan has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 one-handed | 8.74 | 10.50 | top 0.41% | 33 / 5,922 | |
| 3×3 | 5.97 | 6.91 | top 0.47% | 180 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 1.24 | 2.40 | top 1.2% | 128 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 26.89 | 28.74 | top 1.3% | 129 / 5,926 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.80 | 5.98 | top 6.7% | 799 / 10,224 | |
| Skewb | 5.62 | 8.93 | top 22.9% | 1,429 / 5,004 | |
| 5×5 | 1:46.01 | — | top 39.9% | 1,785 / 2,816 | |
| Clock | 13.22 | 14.28 | top 40.6% | 972 / 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
- 24 Aug 2024Six personal bests in one day at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024.
- 26 Jul 2019Seven personal bests in one day at China Championship 2019.
- 20 Oct 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.69 at Wuxi Autumn 2018.
- 21 Apr 2018First competition: Kunshan Open 2018. A 13.85 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Shanghai Summer 2026 · 1 Aug 2026
- Weihai Open 2026 · 5 Jul 2026
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Chengdu Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kunshan Afternoon 2021 · 2 May 2021
- Wuxi Winter 2019 · 8 Dec 2019
- Shandong Open 2019 · 4 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Suzhou Open 2019 · 4 Aug 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 7 personal bests set
- Wuxi Autumn 2018 · 20 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Kunshan Open 2018 · 21 Apr 2018 — 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.
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
- Xulang Li (黎旭朗) — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Ruihang Xu (许瑞航) — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.97 away.
Targets move as he improves.