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Ji Won Yang

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2015 · 2015YANG35

Ji Won Yang has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.01, set at Happy Suseong 2025, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 85th in Republic of Korea. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since October 2015, he has put 540 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.15 in October 2015 to 7.01, a 23% improvement. Ji has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.01
signature single · Happy Suseong 2025
540
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingRepublic of Korea
3×37.018.23
top 1.3%85 / 4,352
Skewb2.815.07
top 4.1%47 / 854
3×3 one-handed13.7316.50
top 5.6%76 / 966
4×433.8838.24
top 5.7%123 / 1,308
2×22.473.33
top 8.6%246 / 2,319
Pyraminx5.758.06
top 18.1%290 / 1,271
5×51:22.591:34.02
top 21.2%199 / 716

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

Korean KAIST Style 2015: 9.15Valentine in Daegu 2016: 11.05Cube Is Good 2016: 10.62Korean Championship 2016: 9.513x3x3 HanMaDang 2017: 9.10Korean Spring Picnic 2017: 7.63Korean Championship 2017: 8.15CWR Fall 2017: 8.17Korean CWR Style 2017: 7.90Cubedu Korea 2018: 7.19Korean Championship 2018: 7.63Cutory Autumn Open 2018: 7.02Cutory Blossom 2019: 7.74Cube Camp in Wonju 2019: 8.26Daegu Autumn Open 2019: 8.32Daegu Hot Autumn 2022: 8.78Daegu Hot Spring 2023: 7.17Seoul Spring 2023: 7.99Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.76Suncheon Fall 2023: 7.04Daegu Cold Winter 2024: 8.11Korean Championship 2024: 7.21Happy Suseong 2025: 7.017.0111.059 Oct 201518 Jan 2025

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 1.01 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.