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Yu-Cheng Lin (林昱丞)

Clock · top 1.5% of 32,817 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024LINY14

Yu-Cheng Lin (林昱丞) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.50, set at Taipei Cube Open 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since September 2024, he has put 314 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.49 in September 2024 to 11.29, a 56% improvement. He has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.5% of 32,817 all-time
3.50
signature single · Taipei Cube Open 2026
314
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Clock3.504.96
top 1.5%7 / 370
2×22.553.87
top 9.5%258 / 1,671
3×311.2913.33
top 11.5%711 / 4,369
Pyraminx5.3211.02
top 15.2%238 / 1,017
3×3 one-handed20.4326.93
top 21.7%278 / 805
4×451.551:01.09
top 26.7%505 / 1,079
Skewb8.2313.32
top 43.2%395 / 700
3×3 Fewest Moves62 moves63.00
early days — 3 solves196 / 205

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

Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 25.49Taiwan Championship 2024: 20.65BQHS Spring Open 2025: 13.26Zhongshan Open 2025: 13.92Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 13.95Taipei Summer Open 2025: 14.50Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 15.17Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 14.25Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 14.28Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 13.00Taiwan Championship 2025: 12.74Shin Kong Cube Open - Taitung 2025: 13.35BQHS Spring Open 2026: 13.81Zhongshan Open 2026: 14.36Taipei Cube Open 2026: 12.99Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 13.87Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 11.29Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2026: 12.36Shin Kong Cube Open - Hualien 2026: 11.7411.2925.4928 Sep 202420 Sep 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-3 Clock single — 248 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.