People · China
Yining Yao (姚祎宁)
Pyraminx · top 0.62% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015YAOY02
Yining Yao (姚祎宁) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.66, set at Beijing Winter 2019, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in China. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since October 2015, he has put 673 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 3.88 in October 2015 to 1.66, a 57% improvement. Yining has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.66 | 2.86 | top 0.62% | 66 / 10,224 | |
| Clock | 7.21 | 8.32 | top 11.8% | 254 / 1,843 | |
| 3×3 | 11.86 | 14.50 | top 13.4% | 5,294 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 3.12 | 4.87 | top 15.6% | 2,498 / 15,796 | |
| 4×4 | 44.15 | 51.86 | top 17.2% | 1,861 / 5,926 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.57 | 22.19 | top 19.4% | 1,948 / 5,922 | |
| 5×5 | 2:07.89 | 2:15.88 | top 54.2% | 2,218 / 2,816 | |
| Skewb | 12.46 | 17.09 | top 68.3% | 3,600 / 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, Pyraminx. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Sep 2019Three personal bests in one day at Xinxiang Open 2019.
- 30 Apr 2017Three personal bests in one day at Nanjing Spring 2017.
- 6 Aug 2016First sub-15 3×3: 11.86 at Jinhua Open 2016.
- 6 Aug 2016Three personal bests in one day at Jinhua Open 2016.
- 2 Oct 2015First competition: China Championship 2015. A 17.04 3×3 single to start from.
- 2 Oct 2015Three personal bests in one day at China Championship 2015.
Competitions
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026
- Xuzhou Open 2025 · 16 Nov 2025
- Tianjin Open 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
- Xuzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- Luoyang Spring 2024 · 10 Mar 2024
- Shenyang Open 2023 · 17 Dec 2023
- Beijing Spring AM 2021 · 4 Apr 2021
- Beijing Winter 2019 · 7 Dec 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Shandong Open 2019 · 4 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Xinxiang Open 2019 · 22 Sep 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Heze Open 2019 · 21 Jul 2019
- Shijiazhuang Open 2018 · 10 Jun 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Open 2018 · 30 Apr 2018 — 1 personal best set
- China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017 · 1 Oct 2017
- China Championship 2017 · 28 Jul 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- ZUST Open 2017 · 10 Jun 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanjing Spring 2017 · 30 Apr 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Asian Championship 2016 · 1 Oct 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Jinhua Open 2016 · 6 Aug 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- One Night in Beijing 2016 · 28 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016 · 2 Apr 2016 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Open 2015 · 24 Oct 2015
- China Championship 2015 · 2 Oct 2015 — 3 personal bests set
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.
- Sheng Cao (曹晟) — met in 67 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
- Chen Kang (亢晨) — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
- A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
Targets move as he improves.