People · China
Yuchen Gao (高雨宸)
3×3 · top 0.13% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025GAOY04
Yuchen Gao (高雨宸) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.05, set at Start of Summer Beijing 2026, puts him in the top 0.13% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in China. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since April 2025, he has put 44 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.92 in April 2025 to 5.05, a 49% improvement. Yuchen has entered two competitions.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.05 | 7.18 | top 0.13% | 56 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 2.82 | 3.64 | top 12.2% | 1,903 / 15,796 |
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 2026Four personal bests in one day at Start of Summer Beijing 2026.
- 13 Apr 2025First competition: Shenyang Spring 2025. A 11.76 3×3 single to start from.
- 13 Apr 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.92 at Shenyang Spring 2025.
Competitions
- Start of Summer Beijing 2026 · 1 May 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Shenyang Spring 2025 · 13 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Heyu Fu (付荷语) — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
- Sheng Cao (曹晟) — met in 8 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
Targets move as he improves.