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Yiqun Lin (林逸群)

3×3 one-handed · top 0.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014LINY02

Yiqun Lin (林逸群) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.44, set at Dandong Yalu River Open 2024, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in China. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since May 2014, he has put 374 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.43 in May 2014 to 7.01, a 33% improvement. Yiqun has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.3% of 73,695 all-time
8.44
signature single · Dandong Yalu River Open 2024
374
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed8.4410.85
top 0.3%26 / 5,922
3×37.018.60
top 1.3%473 / 28,153
Pyraminx3.836.16
top 6.9%817 / 10,224
Megaminx55.341:08.22
top 7.6%180 / 1,678
5×51:09.381:20.98
top 11.2%549 / 2,816
4×439.3942.45
top 11.4%1,211 / 5,926
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves30.67
top 12.2%122 / 1,058
2×23.143.82
top 15.9%2,538 / 15,796
Skewb5.397.58
top 21.1%1,314 / 5,004
6×62:30.472:38.65
early days — 3 solves557 / 1,349
Square-119.4624.97
top 26.7%449 / 1,362
7×74:24.67—
early days — 1 solve745 / 1,261

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

Fuzhou Open 2014: 10.43Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 13.28Fuzhou Open 2016: 9.80Beijing Open 2018: 10.10China Championship 2018: 9.15Beijing Summer 2019: 8.99Beijing Winter 2019: 9.17Beijing Spring PM 2021: 10.49Dandong Yalu River Open 2024: 7.01Beijing Winter 2025: 7.48Beijing Summer 2025: 7.83Fuzhou Open 2026: 7.72Zhangzhou Open 2026: 8.52Fuzhou Summer 2026: 7.457.0113.2811 May 201423 Aug 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.