People · China
Yixin Li (李奕昕)
Skewb · top 2.7% of 74,164 all-time · competing since November 2025 · 2025LIYI09
Yixin Li (李奕昕) has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.45, set at Beijing Autumn Begins 2026, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 74,164 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 145th in China. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since November 2025, he has put 429 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His Skewb best has come down from 7.04 in November 2025 to 2.45, a 65% improvement. Yixin has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 2.45 | 3.34 | top 2.7% | 145 / 5,030 | |
| 3×3 | 8.33 | 10.49 | top 3.4% | 1,302 / 28,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.13 | 6.84 | top 8.4% | 1,012 / 10,269 | |
| 2×2 | 2.50 | 4.44 | top 9.0% | 1,335 / 15,939 | |
| Clock | 19.58 | 26.36 | top 63.4% | 1,446 / 1,887 |
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, Skewb. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 11 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Zenith 2026.
- 29 Nov 2025First competition: Hangzhou Winter 2025. A 11.85 3×3 single to start from.
- 29 Nov 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.15 at Hangzhou Winter 2025.
Competitions
- Guilin Open 2026 · 18 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Guangzhou Grand Open 2026 · 5 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanchang Summer 2026 · 18 Jul 2026
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Foshan Open 2026 · 2 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Small & Special 2026 · 26 Apr 2026
- Xuzhou Zenith 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Yancheng Spring Open 2026 · 29 Mar 2026
- Xianju Special 2026 · 8 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026 · 6 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Zhengzhou Zest 2025 · 27 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best 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.
- Kaixi Guo (郭铠希) — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead once
- Yuxuan Wang (王语萱) — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Yechen Yan (颜叶辰) — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,031 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
Targets move as he improves.