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Evan Yao

3×3 · top 0.56% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021YAOE02

Evan Yao has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.12, set at PBs in Palisades Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.56% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 371st in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since November 2021, he has put 1,375 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.95 in November 2021 to 6.12, a 44% improvement. Evan has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.56% of 284,439 all-time
6.12
signature single · PBs in Palisades Winter 2025
1,375
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.128.36
top 0.56%371 / 59,724
5×553.911:02.18
top 3.0%244 / 9,401
4×431.1235.19
top 3.5%564 / 19,072
Clock4.916.24
top 4.2%340 / 8,927
2×22.003.86
top 4.7%1,891 / 40,951
Square-19.6913.94
top 5.6%408 / 6,743
Pyraminx3.777.28
top 6.6%1,686 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed16.5218.71
top 11.4%1,497 / 15,683
Skewb4.107.49
top 11.6%1,794 / 18,907
6×62:03.752:10.18
top 12.5%458 / 4,196
7×73:18.673:28.53
top 15.9%442 / 3,184
Megaminx1:14.851:28.88
top 18.6%1,261 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded5:39.19—
early days — 1 solve1,744 / 2,092

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

Babylon Fall 2021: 10.95Empire State Winter B 2022: 10.10Maine Spring 2022: 9.47Happy Valley Spring 2022: 9.16Saint John's Spring 2022: 8.15Empire State Spring 2022: 6.95Princeton Spring 2022: 9.07CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 9.00New York Championship 2022: 9.10East Brunswick Open 2022: 8.75Babylon Summer 2022: 8.74Empire State Fall 2022: 8.85West Chester Fall 2022: 8.84New York New Year 2023: 9.00South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 7.16GCU Spring 2023: 8.83Wilmington Warmup 2023: 8.11CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.24Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 7.74Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.56Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 7.88South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 8.54Empire State Spring Special 2024: 8.38New Jersey Championship 2024: 7.62Newark Academy Spring 2024: 7.76Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 8.24Pop Off Princeton 2025: 7.43PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 6.12Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 8.51Flushing Glow Autumn AM 2025: 8.76NYU Spring 2026: 8.376.1210.9514 Nov 20215 Apr 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 3.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.