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Ash Chen

Pyraminx · top 0.056% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018CHEN05

Ash Chen has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.05, set at Warm Up Vancouver 2025, puts her in the top 0.056% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Canada. Until June 2018, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since January 2018, she has put 1,356 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her Pyraminx best has come down from 4.27 in January 2023 to 1.05, a 75% improvement. Ash has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.056% of 129,321 all-time
1.05
signature single · Warm Up Vancouver 2025
1,356
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Pyraminx1.051.90
top 0.056%2 / 4,858
2×21.372.43
top 1.6%102 / 7,173
Skewb2.143.83
top 1.7%24 / 2,907
Clock3.675.07
top 1.8%13 / 1,029
3×38.6513.08
top 4.1%391 / 10,392
Square-111.4014.24
top 8.7%69 / 952
3×3 one-handed16.6922.93
top 11.8%254 / 2,620
4×41:24.63—
top 59.6%1,687 / 3,118
Megaminx2:29.873:03.44
top 61.0%731 / 1,375

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

Richmond Favourites 2023: 4.27Cubing on Par A 2023: 3.86Vancouver Pride 2023: 3.70Canadian Championship 2023: 6.17Cubing Around Metrotown 2023: 5.10Vancouver Fall Fest 2023: 4.72Canada's Best in the West 2024: 2.16Burnaby Basics 2024: 2.00Vancouver Newcomers Afternoon 2024: 2.30Pitt Meadows Spring Open 2024: 1.46Vancouver's on Tracks 2024: 2.04CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 1.95Stevenage July 2024: 1.82BC Championship 2024: 1.60Kent Summer 2024: 2.15Colorado Championship 2024: 1.76Vancouver Southlands Sprint 2024: 2.29Cubing With Cold Hands Whistler 2024: 1.20Lakewood Fall 2024: 1.88Boulder Holiday Bash 2025: 1.63Penticton Lakeside 2025: 1.53Warm Up Vancouver 2025: 1.05Warm Up Seattle 2025: 1.63Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 1.32Championnat Canadien 2025: 1.62Richmond Fall 2025: 1.41Kent Fall 2025: 1.62Vancouver Mini Afternoon 2026: 1.35Surrey Side Events 2026: 1.68Championnat Québécois 2026: 1.72Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 1.45BC Championship 2026: 1.37Northwest Championship 2026: 1.401.056.1714 Jan 202321 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as she improves.