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Yining Shan

3×3 · top 16.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024SHAN09

Yining Shan has been competing for 2 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.63, set at Bursins Goes Fast 2026, puts her in the top 16.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,322nd in China. Across 9 competitions since September 2024, she has put 175 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 30.49 in September 2024 to 12.63, a 59% improvement. Yining has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.1% of 284,439 all-time
12.63
signature single · Bursins Goes Fast 2026
175
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×312.6316.12
top 16.1%6,322 / 28,153
2×23.927.08
top 25.5%4,298 / 15,796
Pyraminx7.5510.90
top 32.5%3,562 / 10,224
Skewb10.3715.71
top 57.2%3,161 / 5,004
4×41:28.591:37.56
top 62.6%5,148 / 5,926
Clock22.5932.77
top 71.5%1,535 / 1,843
Megaminx3:28.02
top 83.0%1,611 / 1,678

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

Luxembourg Nationals 2024: 30.49Palais'Open 2024: 29.77Flashback Collector Metz 2024: 17.60Hayange Open 2025: 17.24Mallorca Open 2025: 19.05Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2025: 15.63Rhein-Neckar Complete Breakdown 2025: 16.47Calvià Open 2025: 17.07Bursins Goes Fast 2026: 12.6312.6330.497 Sep 20244 Apr 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as she improves.