People · China
Youran Shao (邵宥然)
3×3 · top 0.37% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024SHAO05
Youran Shao (邵宥然) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.80, set at Start of Summer Beijing 2026, puts him in the top 0.37% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 147th in China. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since June 2024, he has put 340 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.36 in June 2024 to 5.80, a 44% improvement. Youran 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.80 | 7.11 | top 0.37% | 147 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 1.03 | 2.25 | top 0.62% | 61 / 15,796 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.28 | 4.87 | top 1.7% | 197 / 10,224 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 14.37 | 18.82 | top 6.8% | 661 / 5,922 | |
| 4×4 | 46.84 | 56.12 | top 20.6% | 2,214 / 5,926 |
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
- 1 May 2026Three personal bests in one day at Start of Summer Beijing 2026.
- 10 Jan 2026Four personal bests in one day at Beijing Winter 2026.
- 16 Sep 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.93 at Dalian Open 2024.
- 1 Jun 2024First competition: Tianjin Open 2024. A 10.36 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Start of Summer Beijing 2026 · 1 May 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Beijing Spring Open 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Beijing Only 3x3 2025 · 23 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Xi'an Summer 2025 · 19 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Luoyang Spring 2025 · 1 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Zhengzhou Open 2024 · 8 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Dalian Open 2024 · 16 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Tianjin Open 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
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.
- Junze Huang (黄俊泽) — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead 30 times · head to head
- Chenhao Ma (马晨皓) — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Kaixi Guo (郭铠希) — met in 43 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
Targets move as he improves.