People · China
Yuchuan Gao (高雨川)
3×3 · top 5.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018GAOY01
Yuchuan Gao (高雨川) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.06, set at Yancheng Open 2025, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,952nd in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since January 2018, he has put 264 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.32 in January 2018 to 9.06, a 79% improvement. Yuchuan 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 | 9.06 | 11.63 | top 5.0% | 1,952 / 28,499 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.52 | 19.76 | top 13.9% | 1,404 / 5,994 | |
| 2×2 | 3.01 | 4.12 | top 14.4% | 2,292 / 15,939 | |
| Skewb | 5.64 | 8.64 | top 23.1% | 1,454 / 5,030 | |
| Clock | 9.72 | 10.75 | top 23.6% | 551 / 1,887 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.73 | 9.46 | top 25.7% | 2,923 / 10,269 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 38 moves | 43.33 | top 41.0% | 466 / 1,071 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.20 | — | early days — 2 solves | 4,230 / 5,999 |
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
- 7 Jun 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.06 at Yancheng Open 2025.
- 7 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Yancheng Open 2025.
- 2 Mar 2024First sub-15 3×3: 11.29 at Hangzhou Spring 2024.
- 26 Jul 2019First sub-30 3×3: 19.50 at China Championship 2019.
- 26 Jul 2019First sub-20 3×3: 19.50 at China Championship 2019.
- 26 Jul 2019Three personal bests in one day at China Championship 2019.
Competitions
- Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026 · 13 Sep 2026
- Hefei September Open 2026 · 5 Sep 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- More Than One Cube Shanghai 2026 · 6 Jun 2026
- Hangzhou Open 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Winter 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Yancheng Open 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Nanchang Spring 2025 · 26 Apr 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hangzhou Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- China Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Hangzhou Spring 2018 · 17 Mar 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Jinhua New Year's Day 2018 · 1 Jan 2018
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.
- Ruimin Yan (颜瑞民) — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Qi Zhou (周祺) — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 6,118 people have one; it is 2.52 away.
Targets move as he improves.