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Yiming Lin (林伊铭)

3×3 · top 0.72% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024LINY01

Yiming Lin (林伊铭) has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.35, set at Paradise Park Bangkok NxNxN 2026, puts her in the top 0.72% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 264th in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since March 2024, she has put 1,175 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 9.13 in March 2024 to 6.35, a 30% improvement. Yiming has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.72% of 284,439 all-time
6.35
signature single · Paradise Park Bangkok NxNxN 2026
1,175
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.358.66
top 0.72%264 / 28,153
4×426.7332.00
top 1.3%119 / 5,926
7×72:10.282:26.12
top 1.3%22 / 1,261
5×548.9657.79
top 1.5%60 / 2,816
6×61:32.041:40.93
top 2.2%39 / 1,349
Pyraminx3.156.29
top 4.2%502 / 10,224
3×3 one-handed13.6217.50
top 5.5%505 / 5,922
Skewb3.375.76
top 7.0%389 / 5,004
Megaminx57.931:01.72
top 8.9%220 / 1,678
2×22.803.78
top 12.0%1,860 / 15,796
3×3 blindfolded2:08.47—
top 36.2%525 / 1,183

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

Huzhou Open 2024: 9.13Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024: 7.97Zhengzhou Open 2024: 7.39Hangzhou Open 2024: 8.46Chengdu Spring Open 2025: 8.38Linhai Newcomers 2025: 7.63Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2025: 7.84Nanchang Spring 2025: 8.41Lishui Open 2025: 8.97Robinson Lifestyle Ratchaphruek Cubing 2025: 9.26Taizhou Open 2025: 8.57Vietnam Championship 2025: 10.01Thailand Championship 2025: 8.05Beijing University Cube League 2025: 7.77Hangzhou Winter 2025: 9.15Almaty New Year 2026: 6.87Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 8.56Xianju NxN 2026: 8.67Paradise Park Bangkok NxNxN 2026: 6.35MYHM UoSM Final Cube Open 2026: 7.78Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 8.20Hangzhou Open 2026: 8.32Nanchang Summer 2026: 9.21Don't Sleep In Pelita Sungai Dua 2026: 8.39Cubing Kazakhstan Nationals 2026: 8.676.3510.0130 Mar 202421 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 1.73 away.

Targets move as she improves.