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Yu-Chine Lin (林佑謙)

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017LINY02

Yu-Chine Lin (林佑謙) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.52, set at Zhuyuangang Open 2020, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 116th in Chinese Taipei. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2017, he has put 437 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.06 in April 2017 to 7.52, a 61% improvement. He has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.52
signature single · Zhuyuangang Open 2020
437
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×37.528.18
top 2.0%116 / 4,213
2×21.603.06
top 2.6%56 / 1,669
4×438.3741.47
top 10.2%236 / 1,078
5×51:21.031:33.62
top 19.9%247 / 639
Pyraminx8.5010.06
top 40.5%537 / 1,016
Skewb10.2713.03
top 56.5%486 / 699

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

All is Well 2017: 19.06Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 11.71Cubing Tainan 2018: 10.66Kaohsiung Spring Open 2018: 10.35All is Well 2018: 9.29WCA Asian Championship 2018: 9.69Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 8.69Taiwan Championship 2018: 8.04HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.03All is Well Tainan 2019: 8.36Dream One Cube Open 2019: 7.75Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2019: 8.32Zhuyuangang Open 2020: 7.52Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021: 8.84Maru Cube Day 2021: 8.64Welcome Back Taipei 2021: 7.70Maru Cube Day 2022: 7.857.5219.068 Apr 20173 Sep 2022

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.52 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.