People · China
Yishu Bao (包翊枢)
3×3 · top 1.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025BAOY01
Yishu Bao (包翊枢) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.34, set at Fuzhou Open 2026, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 621st in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since August 2025, he has put 60 official solves on the record across six events. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.56 in August 2025 to 7.34, a 23% improvement. Yishu has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% 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 | 7.34 | 9.81 | top 1.8% | 621 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 3.01 | 3.94 | top 14.3% | 2,245 / 15,796 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.90 | 8.20 | top 19.2% | 2,208 / 10,224 | |
| 4×4 | 49.33 | 51.42 | top 23.9% | 2,540 / 5,926 | |
| Skewb | 8.70 | 11.90 | top 46.4% | 2,684 / 5,004 | |
| Clock | 17.75 | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,324 / 1,843 |
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
- 17 Jan 2026Three personal bests in one day at Fuzhou Open 2026.
- 31 Aug 2025First competition: Quangang Afternoon 2025. A 9.56 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Fuzhou Summer 2026 · 23 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Fuzhou Special 2026 · 22 Aug 2026
- Fuzhou Open 2026 · 17 Jan 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Quangang Afternoon 2025 · 31 Aug 2025
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.
- Weiming Xu (徐伟明) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Haoting Jiang (蒋昊庭) — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Xusheng Hong (洪旭升) — met in 10 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.34 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.01 away.
Targets move as he improves.