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Zexin Yin (尹泽新)

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014YINZ01

Zexin Yin (尹泽新) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.75, set at Jiangmen Open 2025, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,641st in China. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since June 2014, he has put 407 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.54 in June 2014 to 9.75, a 63% improvement. Zexin has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.75
signature single · Jiangmen Open 2025
407
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×39.7512.25
top 6.8%2,641 / 28,153
4×447.3759.47
top 21.3%2,299 / 5,926
2×23.766.33
top 23.5%3,906 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed21.5027.47
top 24.6%2,429 / 5,922
5×52:16.252:25.97
top 58.9%2,335 / 2,816
Pyraminx16.2927.01
top 85.9%8,476 / 10,224
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves—
early days — 1 solve998 / 1,058
Clock35.48—
early days — 2 solves1,747 / 1,843
Skewb21.8726.41
top 92.1%4,528 / 5,004

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

Tianjin University Open 2014: 26.54China Championship 2015: 21.94Beijing Open 2015: 21.74Tianjin Winter Open 2015: 16.81Tangshan Open 2016: 19.02One Night in Beijing 2016: 16.64Chongqing Open 2016: 15.57Asian Championship 2016: 16.71ZUA Open 2017: 15.01Tangshan Open 2017: 12.86China Championship 2017: 10.76Beijing Ten Years Open 2017: 13.18Jinan Open 2017: 12.79Shijiazhuang Open 2017: 11.76Hangzhou Spring 2018: 13.25Shijiazhuang Open 2018: 11.15Tangshan Open 2018: 12.78Changchun Open 2018: 11.55Beijing Summer 2018: 13.47Qinhuangdao Winter 2018: 11.81Shijiazhuang Winter 2018: 11.04Mudanjiang Open 2018: 12.15Yangjiang Open 2019: 12.12GDSY Open 2019: 12.06Beijing Summer 2019: 11.57Jieyang Open 2019: 11.54Shenzhen Open 2019: 13.19Shenzhen Open 2023: 13.20Jiangmen Open 2025: 9.759.7526.547 Jun 201424 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 7.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.