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Ziyuan Lin (林子源)

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2010 · 2010LINZ03

Ziyuan Lin (林子源) has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.73, set at Shenzhen New Year 2017, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,618th in China. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since August 2010, he has put 1,975 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.20 in August 2010 to 8.73, a 43% improvement. Ziyuan has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.73
signature single · Shenzhen New Year 2017
1,975
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.7311.34
top 4.2%1,618 / 28,153
Square-110.0913.72
top 6.2%87 / 1,362
2×22.583.49
top 9.7%1,465 / 15,796
Pyraminx4.466.99
top 10.0%1,188 / 10,224
Skewb4.0912.82
top 11.5%684 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed16.8920.37
top 12.3%1,203 / 5,922
4×441.7946.96
top 14.3%1,537 / 5,926
5×51:40.091:48.05
top 35.4%1,600 / 2,816
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves45.33
top 55.5%652 / 1,058
6×65:02.005:19.55
top 81.9%1,290 / 1,349

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

Shantou Open 2010: 15.20Guangdong Open 2012: 13.44Guangzhou SCAU Open 2013: 11.71Shantou Open 2013: 13.47Guangzhou CCSA Championship 2013: 13.16Xiamen Open 2013: 13.25Guangdong Open 2013: 12.00Nanchang Open 2013: 12.66Guangzhou Small Cubes 2014: 11.52Hefei Spring 2014: 11.68Guangzhou Wushan Open 2014: 10.91Huizhou Open 2014: 12.34Shantou Open 2014: 11.38Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2014: 11.00Guangdong Open 2014: 12.27Guangzhou New Year's Cube Day 2015: 12.85Nanjing Spring 2015: 10.43Guangzhou SYSU Open 2015: 11.55Shenzhen Open 2015: 11.39Hefei Open 2015: 11.67Huizhou Open 2015: 11.28Shantou Open 2015: 9.69Wuxi Open 2015: 10.25China Championship 2015: 10.96Beijing Open 2015: 10.07Nanchang Winter 2015: 10.18Shenzhen New Year 2016: 10.99Dongguan Open 2016: 12.49Guangzhou Rubik's Cube Days 2016: 10.06Huizhou Open 2016: 10.13Xiamen Open 2016: 11.29Fuzhou Open 2016: 9.87Shantou Open 2016: 10.83Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2016: 10.95Asian Championship 2016: 10.59TKK Open 2016: 10.97Shenzhen New Year 2017: 8.73Chaozhou Open 2017: 10.04China Championship 2017: 11.07Shantou Open 2017: 11.43Xiamen Autumn 2017: 9.98Guangdong Open 2018: 11.17Huizhou Open 2018: 10.80Meizhou Open 2018: 11.57Jieyang Open 2018: 10.18Dongguan Mid-Autumn Festival 2018: 10.69Shantou Open 2018: 9.26Jieyang Winter 2020: 10.96Jieyang Good Morning 2021: 10.898.7315.208 Aug 201031 Jan 2021

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 0.73 away.
  • A sub-10 Square-1 single — 1,533 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.