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Yueh-Lin Tsai (蔡岳霖)

3×3 · top 0.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2006 · 2006TSAI03

Yueh-Lin Tsai (蔡岳霖) has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.33, set at Taiwan Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 34th in Chinese Taipei. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 127 competitions since July 2006, he has put 4,418 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.87 in July 2006 to 6.33, a 65% improvement. He has entered 127 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.7% of 284,439 all-time
6.33
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2025
4,418
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
3×36.338.67
top 0.7%34 / 4,213
5×547.3655.97
top 1.1%23 / 639
4×427.6632.26
top 1.6%39 / 1,078
2×21.523.07
top 2.2%51 / 1,669
7×72:29.852:42.11
top 3.7%25 / 252
6×61:44.451:51.70
top 5.3%34 / 292
3×3 one-handed17.2020.38
top 13.1%179 / 802
Pyraminx5.899.89
top 19.2%295 / 1,016
Square-120.2332.05
top 28.5%124 / 323
Megaminx1:31.751:40.36
top 29.3%171 / 362
Skewb7.8612.63
top 40.2%372 / 699
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 3 solves104 / 204
Clock16.1218.35
top 52.3%225 / 366

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

Taiwanese Championship 2006: 17.87Taiwanese Championship 2007: 14.66Taiwan Winter Open 2009: 13.33Taiwan Spring Open 2009: 12.00Taiwan Summer Open 2009: 13.02Maru Cube Day 2009: 11.83Taiwan Winter Open 2010: 9.96Taiwan Summer Open 2010: 11.69Taiwan Winter Open 2011: 10.09Taiwan Summer 2011: 9.57Taipei Open 2011: 9.33Taiwan Winter 2012: 9.19Taiwan Summer Open 2012: 9.81Asian Championship 2012: 10.01Magic Revenge 2012: 10.52MARU Cube for kid Day 2013: 11.06Taiwan Summer Open 2013: 8.16Kaohsiung Open 2013: 9.66Kaohsiung Winter Open 2014: 9.18Maru Cube for Kids Day 2014: 9.58Mingdao Cube Carnival 2014: 9.33Kaohsiung Summer Open 2014: 9.78Taiwan Summer Open 2014: 9.16Master Challenge 2014: 9.33Asian Championship 2014: 10.21Hsinchu Winter Open 2014: 9.12Kaohsiung Open 2014: 8.49Kaohsiung Winter Open 2015: 6.50All is Well 2015: 9.55Maru Cube for Kids Day 2015: 9.03Show Off Quickness 2015: 8.65Hsinchu Spring Open 2015: 8.54Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 9.36Taiwan Open 2015: 7.72Hsinchu Summer Open 2015: 9.38Magic Revenge 2015: 9.06Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 9.14Twisting Fingers in New Taipei City 2015: 9.22China Championship 2015: 9.59Taiwan Cubing League - Taichung 2015: 8.40Taipei Open 2015: 9.62All is Well 2016: 9.02Taichung Cube Open 2016: 8.66Maru Cube Day 2016: 8.26Kaohsiung Open 2016: 8.29Asian Championship 2016: 8.48Taiwan Championship 2016: 7.89Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016: 10.04Taipei Open 2017: 10.30All is Well 2017: 9.45Kaohsiung Summer Open 2017: 9.03World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.72Lanyang Open 2017: 9.03Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 9.27Taiwan Championship 2017: 9.59Japan Open 2017: 9.85Cubing Tainan 2018: 8.85Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 8.24Kaohsiung Spring Open 2018: 8.08Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2018: 10.03All is Well 2018: 9.22CK Cubing Party 2018: 8.74Maru X 2018: 8.67WCA Asian Championship 2018: 8.93Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2018: 9.04Taipei Winter Open 2018: 9.25Taiwan Championship 2018: 7.29Japan Championship 2018: 9.10Taipei Peace Open 2019: 8.96Taichung Cubing Open 2019: 8.09Zhuyuangang Open 2019: 9.00HCHS 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.80Maru Cube Day 2019: 6.63WCA World Championship 2019: 8.78Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019: 9.25Japan Championship 2019: 8.08Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2019: 8.13Taiwan Championship 2019: 8.78Pingtung Cubing Open 2020: 8.36Zhuyuangang Open 2020: 8.27Taiwan Championship 2020: 7.56Welcome Back Kaohsiung 2021: 8.36Welcome Back Taipei 2021: 6.97Taiwan Open 2022: 8.92CK Cubing Party 2022: 8.60Chiayi Open 2022: 8.60Pingtung Summer Open 2022: 9.44Maru Cube Day 2022: 8.41Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 7.27Yunlin Winter Open 2022: 9.81Taiwan Championship 2022: 8.74Taichung Open 2023: 8.09CK Cubing Party 2023: 8.40Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 8.34New Taipei Open 2023: 8.51Maru Cube Day 2023: 8.05Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.64Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 8.52Taiwan Championship 2023: 7.67Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 8.25Zhongshan Open 2024: 9.53Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 9.46Taipei Summer Open 2024: 9.07Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 7.80Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2024: 8.09Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 8.80Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2024: 6.80Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 8.24Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 7.52Taiwan Championship 2024: 8.23Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 7.04Taipei Summer Open 2025: 9.37Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 9.28Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2025: 9.75Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 8.66Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 9.23Shin Kong Cube Open - Kaohsiung 2025: 7.48Taiwan Championship 2025: 6.33Shin Kong Cube Open - Taitung 2025: 8.09Zhongshan Open 2026: 7.99Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2026: 8.59Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 8.01Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 7.846.3317.8723 Jul 200630 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 7.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.