People · China
Yihui Xu (徐毅慧)
Clock · top 4.0% of 32,817 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015XUYI02
Yihui Xu (徐毅慧) has been competing for 11 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.84, set at Guangzhou Grand Open 2026, puts her in the top 4.0% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in China. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since October 2015, she has put 272 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.25 in October 2015 to 10.69, a 41% improvement. Yihui has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 4.84 | 5.82 | top 4.0% | 75 / 1,887 | |
| 3×3 | 10.69 | 12.10 | top 9.6% | 3,814 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.60 | 7.14 | top 10.8% | 1,306 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 2.93 | 5.73 | top 13.5% | 2,139 / 15,939 | |
| 4×4 | 48.23 | 51.40 | top 22.5% | 2,463 / 5,999 | |
| Megaminx | 1:27.20 | 1:43.31 | top 26.4% | 825 / 1,693 | |
| 5×5 | 1:44.43 | 2:26.06 | top 38.8% | 1,779 / 2,857 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 26.84 | 34.71 | top 39.0% | 3,673 / 5,994 | |
| Skewb | 9.97 | 18.35 | top 54.8% | 3,067 / 5,030 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 4:01.63 | — | early days — 1 solve | 941 / 1,184 |
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
- 5 Oct 2026Three personal bests in one day at Guangzhou Grand Open 2026.
- 20 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Beijing Spring Open 2025.
- 2 Apr 2016First sub-15 3×3: 14.57 at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016.
- 2 Apr 2016Three personal bests in one day at Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016.
- 24 Oct 2015First competition: Beijing Open 2015. A 18.25 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Guangzhou Grand Open 2026 · 5 Oct 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026 · 1 Oct 2026
- Xi'an One More Clock 2026 · 13 Sep 2026
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Spring Open 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Spring Open 2025 · 20 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- Ningbo Footsteps 2019 · 15 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Open 2017 · 24 Jun 2017
- Tangshan Open 2017 · 28 May 2017
- Asian Championship 2016 · 1 Oct 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Hefei Open 2016 · 15 Jul 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- One Night in Beijing 2016 · 28 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Tangshan Open 2016 · 8 May 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016 · 2 Apr 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- Tianjin Winter Open 2015 · 5 Dec 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Open 2015 · 24 Oct 2015
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 her.
- Sheng Cao (曹晟) — met in 40 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yunke Zhang (张云柯) — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Chen Kang (亢晨) — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 Clock single — 754 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
Targets move as she improves.