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Jerry Yao

3×3 · top 0.015% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2019 · 2019YAOJ01

Jerry Yao has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.03, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.015% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in the United States. Until November 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 57 competitions since May 2019, he has put 3,224 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.33 in May 2019 to 4.03, a 64% improvement. Jerry has entered 57 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.015% of 284,439 all-time
4.03
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024
3,224
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.035.78
top 0.015%12 / 59,724
4×420.5725.71
top 0.082%14 / 19,072
5×538.9144.10
top 0.1%9 / 9,401
2×20.701.32
top 0.12%48 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed8.0010.38
top 0.21%31 / 15,683
6×61:23.301:29.79
top 0.96%36 / 4,196
7×72:13.432:23.14
top 1.6%42 / 3,184
Square-18.0210.35
top 3.0%223 / 6,743
Pyraminx3.295.31
top 4.6%1,214 / 28,708
Megaminx57.051:07.92
top 8.4%582 / 7,841
Skewb4.487.47
top 14.3%2,232 / 18,907
Clock10.6312.95
top 28.2%2,181 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded2:01.112:45.42
top 33.8%696 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves42.67
early days — 3 solves879 / 2,040

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

George School Open 2019: 11.33Arcadia Summer 2019: 8.87Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 8.54Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 8.43Brooklyn Fall 2019: 7.34No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 7.20Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 8.54Scranton Scramble 2020: 7.44Princeton Winter 2020: 8.70Empire State Summer B 2021: 6.22Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 5.79Deerfield Winter 2022: 4.90Maine Spring 2022: 5.99Empire State Spring 2022: 5.06Princeton Spring 2022: 5.74CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 5.48Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 5.72East Brunswick Open 2022: 5.02St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 5.97Think In Fink Fall 2022: 5.95Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 5.32Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 5.60NJIT Spring 2023: 5.81CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 5.62CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.03Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.03CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 4.77Princeton Fall 2023: 4.84New York New Year 2024: 5.76Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 5.64Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 5.12New-Cumberland County 2024: 4.68Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 5.06South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 4.76Spring into Summit 2024: 4.93New Jersey Championship 2024: 5.64Newark Academy Spring 2024: 4.97Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 5.35Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 5.35Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 5.63Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 5.87CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 4.03Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 5.46Great Peconic Bay 2025: 5.27Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 5.48Summit Summer 2025: 5.14Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 4.79Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 4.89CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 5.17New York New Year 2025: 4.72Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 5.39NYU Spring 2026: 5.32Cape May Summer B 2026: 4.93Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 4.85Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 4.89Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 5.624.0311.3311 May 201929 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 375 rounds, finished ahead 288 times
  • Zayn Khanani — met in 366 rounds, finished ahead 214 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 359 rounds, finished ahead 236 times

Next targets

  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.