People · United States
Antoine Yueyang Laforest-Jing
3×3 · top 4.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022LAFO02
Antoine Yueyang Laforest-Jing has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.72, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,399th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since April 2022, he has put 390 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.38 in April 2022 to 8.72, a 64% improvement. Antoine has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 8.72 | 12.03 | top 4.2% | 2,399 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.71 | 7.43 | top 6.3% | 1,648 / 29,168 | |
| Skewb | 4.03 | 6.80 | top 11.2% | 1,741 / 19,164 | |
| 2×2 | 2.93 | 3.81 | top 13.5% | 5,388 / 41,674 | |
| Megaminx | 1:36.35 | 1:43.49 | top 32.4% | 2,338 / 8,026 | |
| 4×4 | 56.77 | 1:07.78 | top 32.9% | 5,314 / 19,354 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.44 | 34.62 | top 40.5% | 5,498 / 15,900 | |
| 5×5 | 1:49.62 | 2:00.38 | top 42.4% | 3,505 / 9,537 |
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
- 1 Aug 2025First sub-10 3×3: 8.72 at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025.
- 1 Aug 2025Six personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025.
- 3 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.
- 16 Aug 2024Three personal bests in one day at Missouri Championship 2024.
- 6 May 2023First sub-20 3×3: 19.41 at Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023.
- 6 May 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.23 at Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023.
Competitions
- Concordia Fall Foliage 2026 · 10 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Concordia Turning Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025 — 6 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Missouri Championship 2024 · 16 Aug 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Land of Lincoln 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Missouri Summer Kickoff 2024 · 26 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- UIUC Big Cubes Spring 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CoMO Cubing Winter 2024 · 3 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Concordia Turning Fall 2023 · 9 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022 · 29 Apr 2022
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.
- Trenton Cuzick — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Edward Vakula — met in 70 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jeremiah Storm — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
Targets move as he improves.