People · China
Yiming Lu
3×3 · top 0.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019LUYI03
Yiming Lu has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.33, set at Thornhill Spring 2024, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since June 2019, he has put 527 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.15 in June 2019 to 5.33, a 74% improvement. Yiming has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% 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 | 5.33 | 7.03 | top 0.2% | 80 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 1.54 | 2.74 | top 2.3% | 274 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.46 | 14.16 | top 3.6% | 315 / 5,922 | |
| 4×4 | 33.13 | 35.07 | top 5.1% | 502 / 5,926 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.77 | 8.72 | top 6.6% | 782 / 10,224 | |
| 5×5 | 1:15.80 | 1:31.02 | top 15.9% | 774 / 2,816 | |
| Megaminx | 1:14.92 | 1:22.31 | top 18.6% | 561 / 1,678 | |
| Skewb | 10.00 | 14.91 | top 54.9% | 3,051 / 5,004 |
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
- 9 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Ontario Championship 2024.
- 7 Jul 2022Four personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022.
- 7 May 2022First sub-20 3×3: 7.98 at Oshawa Favourites 2022.
- 7 May 2022First sub-15 3×3: 7.98 at Oshawa Favourites 2022.
- 7 May 2022First sub-10 3×3: 7.98 at Oshawa Favourites 2022.
- 7 May 2022Three personal bests in one day at Oshawa Favourites 2022.
Competitions
- Brampton Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Greater Toronto 2025 · 9 Mar 2025
- Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Pickering Mini Morning 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Ontario Championship 2024 · 9 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Appleby Summer 2024 · 6 Jul 2024
- Thornhill Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Greater Toronto 2024 · 18 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Scarborough Fall B 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Fall B 2023 · 22 Oct 2023
- Rubik's x Speedcubing Canada All-Stars 2023 · 25 Aug 2023
- Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
- Pickering A 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Waterloo Favourites A 2023 · 18 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Appleby Winter B 2023 · 8 Jan 2023
- Ajax NxNxN 2022 · 29 Oct 2022
- Richmond Hill 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022 · 7 Jul 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Hamilton Side Events 2022 · 28 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Oshawa Favourites 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Battle of Waterloo 2019 · 14 Sep 2019
- Cubing in the 6ix 2019 · 24 Aug 2019
- Newmarket Open 2019 · 22 Jun 2019
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.
- Matthew Lee — met in 76 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Arhaan Sareen — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Morgan Yeh — met in 74 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
Targets move as he improves.