People · China
Yilin Fang (方艺霖)
3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024FANG04
Yilin Fang (方艺霖) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.63, set at Zibo Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 358th in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since March 2024, he has put 95 official solves on the record across three 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 9.37 in March 2024 to 6.63, a 29% improvement. Yilin has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% 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 | 6.63 | 9.51 | top 0.96% | 358 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.58 | 3.99 | top 9.7% | 1,465 / 15,796 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.68 | 7.90 | top 17.6% | 2,038 / 10,224 |
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
- 30 Mar 2024First competition: Huzhou Open 2024. A 10.19 3×3 single to start from.
- 30 Mar 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.37 at Huzhou Open 2024.
Competitions
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kunshan Open 2024 · 14 Apr 2024
- Huzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 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.
- Zhiyi Yang (杨芝懿) — met in 19 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yangming Wang (王扬铭) — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
Targets move as he improves.