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Gang Yong-Jin

Square-1 · top 4.5% of 25,272 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015YONG02

Gang Yong-Jin has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 8.99, set at Play Cube 2018, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 20th in Republic of Korea. Until October 2010, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since October 2015, he has put 295 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.48 in December 2015 to 9.20, a 41% improvement. Gang has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 4.5% of 25,272 all-time
8.99
signature single · Play Cube 2018
295
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
Square-18.9910.46
top 4.5%20 / 371
3×39.2011.54
top 5.3%317 / 4,352
Megaminx51.4956.59
top 5.7%45 / 524
3×3 blindfolded41.791:14.85
top 7.4%22 / 217
4×436.8940.46
top 8.6%171 / 1,308
Skewb3.686.29
top 8.8%94 / 854
2×22.654.72
top 10.4%305 / 2,319
3×3 one-handed16.5622.94
top 11.5%165 / 966
Pyraminx5.328.71
top 15.2%238 / 1,271
5×51:24.581:34.70
top 22.9%209 / 716
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves42.00
top 26.7%52 / 173
6×62:40.513:00.73
top 31.0%138 / 329
7×74:09.374:14.70
top 34.1%116 / 254
4×4 blindfolded6:44.36—
early days — 2 solves27 / 48
Clock16.9826.02
top 55.4%367 / 536
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 8 cubes · 43:16—
early days — 1 solve60 / 74

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

Korea Winter 2015: 15.48Cube Is Good 2016: 10.37Korean Championship 2016: 13.28Busan Winter 2016: 10.34Play Cube 2017: 10.85Korean Championship 2017: 11.39CWR Fall 2017: 11.04Korean Championship 2018: 9.20Korea Winter 2019: 10.12Cubing Korea 2019: 9.219.2015.4819 Dec 201528 Dec 2019

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 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.