People · China
Yongjie Yan (严勇杰)
3×3 · top 0.25% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017YANY06
Yongjie Yan (严勇杰) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.50, set at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 110th in China. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since November 2017, he has put 464 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.76 in November 2017 to 5.50, a 60% improvement. Yongjie has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 5.50 | 8.01 | top 0.25% | 110 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 8.87 | 11.18 | top 0.46% | 41 / 5,994 | |
| 2×2 | 1.52 | 3.09 | top 2.2% | 264 / 15,939 | |
| 4×4 | 29.75 | 32.00 | top 2.7% | 273 / 5,999 | |
| 5×5 | 56.32 | 1:04.96 | top 3.9% | 187 / 2,857 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.27 | 5.75 | top 9.0% | 1,097 / 10,269 | |
| 6×6 | 2:18.76 | 2:25.86 | top 20.0% | 451 / 1,363 | |
| 7×7 | 4:04.89 | — | early days — 1 solve | 647 / 1,274 |
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
- 24 Aug 2024Four personal bests in one day at Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024.
- 30 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Xuzhou Open 2024.
- 25 Nov 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.73 at Hefei Winter Open 2023.
- 25 Nov 2023Three personal bests in one day at Hefei Winter Open 2023.
- 11 Nov 2017First competition: Nanchang Open 2017. A 13.76 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Nanchang Summer 2026 · 18 Jul 2026
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025 · 9 Nov 2025
- Ningbo Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lishui Open 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Spring 2025 · 19 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Yancheng Open 2024 · 21 Dec 2024
- Shenzhen Open 2024 · 7 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024 · 1 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024 · 24 Aug 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Open 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Hefei Winter Open 2023 · 25 Nov 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018 · 8 Jul 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Nanchang Open 2017 · 11 Nov 2017
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.
- Zhen Chen (陈震) — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead once
- Zhiyuan Ma (马之元) — met in 53 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
- Yusheng Du (杜宇生) — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
Targets move as he improves.