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David Wang

3×3 · top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024WAND04

David Wang has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.47, set at PBs in Palisades Open 2026, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,080th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since September 2024, he has put 744 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.09 in November 2024 to 8.47, a 60% improvement. David has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.47
signature single · PBs in Palisades Open 2026
744
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.4711.37
top 3.7%2,080 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.535.95
top 5.6%1,446 / 28,708
2×22.273.38
top 6.8%2,687 / 40,951
Clock6.937.69
top 10.7%823 / 8,927
Skewb4.197.66
top 12.2%1,904 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed25.1428.40
top 34.6%4,560 / 15,683
4×41:03.911:11.40
top 40.6%6,610 / 19,072
Square-125.7056.57
top 40.7%2,638 / 6,743
Megaminx2:43.99—
top 67.7%5,213 / 7,841
5×53:02.434:00.86
top 78.9%7,148 / 9,401

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

Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 21.09Flushing Open PM 2024: 21.43Flushing Glow PM 2024: 15.43Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 16.60Kisco Cubing 2025: 12.89Pop Off Princeton 2025: 15.06Rutgers Winter 2025: 13.72PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 12.77PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 11.70Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 9.88Great Peconic Bay 2025: 13.16NYU Spring 2025: 11.92PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 12.17American Dream NJ 2025: 11.89Long Island Summer 2025: 11.96Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 12.33CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 11.47Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 13.15Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 11.10Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 10.79Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 9.39PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 8.47No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 13.16Great Peconic Bay 2026: 12.36Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.09Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 9.94Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 9.598.4721.432 Nov 202414 Aug 2026

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.