People · United States
Alvin Yang
3×3 · top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017YANG99
Alvin Yang has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.84, set at Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,424th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since October 2017, he has put 114 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, steadier than 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.28 in October 2017 to 10.84, a 12% improvement. Alvin has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.84 | 12.93 | top 10.0% | 5,424 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.72 | 24.85 | top 19.8% | 2,542 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 48.32 | 57.57 | top 22.5% | 3,411 / 19,072 | |
| Megaminx | 1:26.35 | 1:41.46 | top 25.8% | 1,781 / 7,841 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 Oct 2017First competition: Maryland 2017. A 12.28 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UMBC Spring 2025 · 10 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025 · 23 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Slow N Steady Spring 2022 · 2 Apr 2022
- Slow N Steady Winter 2020 · 23 Feb 2020
- Potomac Speedcubing 2020 · 11 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady Summer 2019 · 14 Sep 2019
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Maryland 2018 · 30 Jun 2018
- Maryland 2017 · 7 Oct 2017
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.
- Stone Payne — met in 21 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Daniel Greigg — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
- Corey Sakowski — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
- A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 4.72 away.
Targets move as he improves.