People · China
Ying Hu (胡莹)
3×3 · top 4.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019HUYI02
Ying Hu (胡莹) has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.01, set at Huanggang Open 2026, puts her in the top 4.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,897th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since April 2019, she has put 318 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.70 in April 2019 to 9.01, a 49% improvement. Ying has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 9.01 | 10.50 | top 4.9% | 1,897 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.13 | 6.18 | top 8.4% | 1,012 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 2.44 | 4.28 | top 8.4% | 1,241 / 15,939 | |
| Clock | 6.70 | 7.39 | top 9.8% | 222 / 1,887 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.98 | 19.61 | top 12.6% | 1,257 / 5,994 | |
| 4×4 | 41.04 | 46.92 | top 13.4% | 1,483 / 5,999 | |
| Skewb | 5.58 | 6.62 | top 22.6% | 1,431 / 5,030 | |
| Square-1 | 35.48 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,018 / 1,373 |
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
- 27 Dec 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.90 at Zhengzhou Zest 2025.
- 8 Nov 2025Three personal bests in one day at Guangzhou Special 2025.
- 26 Jul 2025Four personal bests in one day at Taizhou Open 2025.
- 26 Apr 2025Four personal bests in one day at Nanchang Spring 2025.
- 2 Jan 2021First sub-15 3×3: 14.16 at Nanchang Good Morning 2021.
- 2 Jan 2021Four personal bests in one day at Nanchang Good Morning 2021.
Competitions
- Huanggang Open 2026 · 7 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhengzhou Zeal 2025 · 28 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Zhengzhou Zest 2025 · 27 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Guangzhou Special 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Jiangmen Open 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Lishui Open 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanchang Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Xi'an Open 2024 · 3 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanchang Good Morning 2021 · 2 Jan 2021 — 4 personal bests set
- Nanchang Winter 2019 · 21 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Heze Open 2019 · 21 Jul 2019
- Nanchang Open 2019 · 20 Apr 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 her.
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- Yang Pin Xiu (楊品修) — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
Targets move as she improves.