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Daniel Yang

Pyraminx · top 0.95% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015YANG02

Daniel Yang has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.88, set at Eugene Fall 2017, puts him in the top 0.95% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 267th in the United States. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since January 2015, he has put 1,478 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.65 in January 2015 to 7.14, a 44% improvement. Daniel has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.95% of 129,321 all-time
1.88
signature single · Eugene Fall 2017
1,478
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.884.12
top 0.95%267 / 28,708
Megaminx37.1041.87
top 0.97%68 / 7,841
3×37.149.05
top 1.5%903 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed11.3515.44
top 2.2%356 / 15,683
Square-17.9610.84
top 3.0%217 / 6,743
Skewb2.864.34
top 4.3%665 / 18,907
4×432.5636.07
top 4.6%735 / 19,072
5×559.881:03.93
top 5.5%448 / 9,401
2×22.223.23
top 6.4%2,535 / 40,951
7×73:01.333:05.13
top 10.9%296 / 3,184
6×62:00.252:11.96
top 11.1%395 / 4,196
Clock8.369.85
top 16.9%1,286 / 8,927

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

Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 12.65UW Spring 2015: 10.39US Nationals 2015: 10.93Keep Portland Weird 2015: 11.26Rose City 2016: 10.79US Nationals 2016: 10.42Oregon 2016: 10.30PDX Cubing for Dougy 2016: 10.07Rose City 2017: 9.39Northwest Championships 2017: 10.50Eugene Fall 2017: 8.45PDX Cubing for Causes 2018: 8.44CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 9.19SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 7.34Central Washington Spring 2022: 8.32School's Out PLU 2022: 8.27Oregon Championship 2022: 8.24SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 8.39Tri Cities Fall 2022: 8.27Lynnwood Winter 2023: 8.75Central Washington Odds 2023: 7.14Washington Championship 2023: 7.30Couve Cubing Spring 2024: 8.69PortlaNxNd 2024: 8.36Oregon Championship 2024: 8.907.1412.6531 Jan 201513 Sep 2024

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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 7.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.