People · China
Yingming Song (宋映鸣)
3×3 · top 6.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024SONG20
Yingming Song (宋映鸣) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.72, set at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,597th in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since August 2024, he has put 71 official solves on the record across seven events. His 4×4 best has come down from 48.53 in August 2024 to 36.27, a 25% improvement. Yingming 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 | 9.72 | 11.43 | top 6.7% | 2,597 / 28,153 | |
| 4×4 | 36.27 | 41.27 | top 7.9% | 825 / 5,926 | |
| 5×5 | 1:06.45 | 1:16.05 | top 9.3% | 451 / 2,816 | |
| Megaminx | 58.95 | 1:01.32 | top 9.4% | 238 / 1,678 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.84 | 21.31 | top 17.4% | 1,716 / 5,922 | |
| 7×7 | 3:30.44 | 3:37.74 | top 19.9% | 407 / 1,261 | |
| 6×6 | 2:20.49 | 2:33.09 | top 20.7% | 463 / 1,349 |
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, 4×4. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Apr 2025Three personal bests in one day at Deqing Spring 2025.
- 24 Aug 2024First competition: Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024. A 9.72 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Deqing Big & Blind 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Spring 2025 · 19 Apr 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
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.
- Yiming Lin (林伊铭) — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Xuewei Zhang (章学威) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Weikang Zheng (郑炜康) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.27 away.
Targets move as he improves.