People · China
Yilin Yu (余奕霖)
3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025YUYI05
Yilin Yu (余奕霖) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.29, set at Hangzhou Winter 2025, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,241st in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since June 2025, he has put 45 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Yilin has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% 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 | 8.29 | 9.53 | top 3.3% | 1,241 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.31 | 3.07 | top 7.1% | 1,016 / 15,796 |
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
- 7 Jun 2025First competition: Yancheng Open 2025. A 8.80 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
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.
- Kaicheng Jin (金开诚) — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead once
- Yongjun Liao (廖泳竣) — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead once
- Zhen Chen (陈震) — met in 7 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.