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Yu Jin (金煜)

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018JINY05

Yu Jin (金煜) has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.82, set at Taizhou Open 2025, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 892nd in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since November 2018, he has put 746 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.19 in November 2018 to 7.82, a 23% improvement. Yu has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.82
signature single · Taizhou Open 2025
746
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×37.829.65
top 2.5%892 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed11.5814.18
top 2.5%210 / 5,922
4×431.1236.54
top 3.5%357 / 5,926
5×51:09.441:14.75
top 11.2%551 / 2,816
2×23.254.26
top 17.2%2,770 / 15,796
Pyraminx6.4410.39
top 23.3%2,657 / 10,224
3×3 blindfolded1:35.42—
early days — 1 solve342 / 1,183
6×62:39.832:53.18
top 30.6%650 / 1,349
Megaminx1:35.781:53.03
top 31.9%947 / 1,678
Square-124.9140.49
top 39.0%666 / 1,362
7×74:40.095:25.88
top 44.5%820 / 1,261
Clock15.2720.64
top 49.0%1,156 / 1,843
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves—
early days — 2 solves807 / 1,058

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

Hangzhou Open 2018: 10.19Nanjing Autumn 2018: 9.65SJTU Winter Open 2018: 10.42Yancheng Spring 2019: 10.17Wuhu Open 2019: 10.64Hangzhou Open 2019: 10.64Huzhou Open 2019: 9.96China Championship 2019: 9.32Nanjing Autumn 2019: 11.07Wuxi Winter 2019: 9.32Shaoxing Open 2019: 9.10Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 9.33Nanchang Good Afternoon 2021: 8.20Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021: 9.86Shaoxing Afternoon 2021: 9.21Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 9.14Vietnam Championship 2023: 8.87Hangzhou Spring 2024: 8.93Xi'an Open 2024: 9.06Deqing Big Cubes Summer 2024: 9.02Linhai Newcomers 2025: 9.27Taizhou Open 2025: 7.82Hangzhou Winter 2025: 8.237.8211.0710 Nov 201829 Nov 2025

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 1.82 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.