People · China
Chenggang Yao (姚成刚)
3×3 · top 7.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019YAOC01
Chenggang Yao (姚成刚) has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.15, set at Hangzhou Open 2024, puts him in the top 7.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,085th in China. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since March 2019, he has put 40 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Chenggang has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.15 | 12.42 | top 7.9% | 3,085 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.90 | 31.58 | top 41.7% | 3,799 / 5,922 |
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
- 31 Mar 2019First competition: Qingdao Spring 2019. A 10.32 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hangzhou Open 2024 · 15 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Shandong Open 2019 · 4 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Taizhou Open 2019 · 3 Aug 2019
- Qingdao Spring 2019 · 31 Mar 2019
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.
- Jinhui Su (苏锦辉) — met in 6 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Kanting Shi (史勘霆) — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
- Aolin Tang (唐奥林) — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
- A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 2.90 away.
Targets move as he improves.