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Yue Shen (申粤)

3×3 one-handed · top 1.1% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2015 · 2015SHEN07

Yue Shen (申粤) has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.04, set at Guangdong Open 2021, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 90th in China. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since July 2015, he has put 987 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.37 in July 2015 to 7.24, a 50% improvement. Yue has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.1% of 73,695 all-time
10.04
signature single · Guangdong Open 2021
987
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 one-handed10.0412.63
top 1.1%90 / 5,922
2×21.242.70
top 1.2%128 / 15,796
3×37.249.21
top 1.6%577 / 28,153
Skewb2.254.57
top 2.1%104 / 5,004
5×556.651:04.85
top 4.0%187 / 2,816
4×434.4937.63
top 6.3%631 / 5,926
Megaminx56.801:05.86
top 8.3%201 / 1,678
6×61:58.372:08.27
top 10.4%221 / 1,349
Pyraminx4.545.88
top 10.5%1,241 / 10,224
Square-115.3221.32
top 17.1%267 / 1,362
Clock8.5211.15
top 17.6%388 / 1,843
7×73:37.443:49.53
top 22.4%451 / 1,261

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

Shenzhen Open 2015: 14.37Huizhou Open 2015: 12.69Shenzhen New Year 2016: 10.64Suzhou Open 2018: 11.80Shenzhen Nanshan 2018: 11.58Shenzhen 3x3 Days 2019: 9.52GDSY Open 2019: 10.34Dongguan Spring 2019: 10.98Zhongshan Children's Cube Day 2019: 10.14Shenzhen Open 2019: 10.14Zhongshan NxN Speedcubing 2019: 9.40 Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2020: 9.44Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 8.03Shenzhen Good Afternoon 2021: 10.66Guangzhou Panyu Afternoon 2021: 10.13Shenzhen Nanshan Afternoon 2021: 9.54Guangdong Open 2021: 8.60Hong Kong Small Cube Day 2023: 9.37Chongqing Open 2023: 8.73Shenzhen Youth Open 2023: 8.53Shenzhen Open 2023: 9.16Shenzhen Nanshan Open 2024: 7.24Huizhou 10th Anniversary 2024: 7.70Zhuhai Open 2025: 9.48Jiangmen Open 2025: 8.89Guangzhou Small Cubes 2025: 8.98Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 7.61Zhuhai Pi Day 2026: 8.47Foshan Open 2026: 8.10Zhangzhou Open 2026: 10.48Maoming Open 2026: 9.94Zhanjiang Open 2026: 8.487.2414.3712 Jul 20159 Aug 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.