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Alvin Yang

5×5 · top 2.7% of 40,792 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014YANG37

Alvin Yang has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 53.17, set at China Championship 2019, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 116th in China. Until August 2012, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since December 2014, he has put 530 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.80 in December 2014 to 8.12, a 57% improvement. Alvin has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 2.7% of 40,792 all-time
53.17
signature single · China Championship 2019
530
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
5×553.171:05.44
top 2.7%116 / 2,816
7×72:24.962:33.71
top 3.0%55 / 1,261
3×38.1210.47
top 3.0%1,093 / 28,153
6×61:44.761:50.05
top 5.4%118 / 1,349
4×443.6651.81
top 16.6%1,793 / 5,926
3×3 one-handed20.7527.10
top 22.6%2,247 / 5,922
2×24.287.35
top 30.1%5,155 / 15,796

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

VanCubing Winter 2014: 18.80Vancouver Open Spring 2015: 20.02Canadian Open 2015: 15.02Vancouver Open Summer 2015: 14.13Atlantic Open Fall 2015: 12.70National Capital Region 2016: 12.04Vancouver Fall 2016: 11.58Atlantic Open 2017: 10.65Cubing with the Viking 2017: 10.72Weihai Open 2018: 10.61Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 10.51Minnesota Cube Melt 2019: 9.53China Championship 2019: 9.66Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019: 9.27Beijing Spring PM 2021: 10.66Xi'an Cherry Blossom PM 2021: 10.16Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021: 8.75Florida Spring B 2022: 8.128.1220.0213 Dec 201412 Mar 2022

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-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 3.17 away.
  • A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 24.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.