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Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)

5×5 · top 0.0098% of 40,792 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015WANG09

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 31.61, set at Taiwan Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.0098% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in Chinese Taipei. Until September 2024, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 89 competitions since March 2015, he has put 5,388 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.21 in March 2015 to 4.15, a 63% improvement. He has entered 89 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.0098% of 40,792 all-time
31.61
signature single · Taiwan Championship 2025
5,388
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
5×531.6137.33
top 0.0098%1 / 639
4×418.4121.27
top 0.02%1 / 1,078
3×34.155.69
top 0.022%1 / 4,213
2×20.611.75
top 0.047%1 / 1,669
6×61:08.491:18.10
top 0.086%1 / 292
3×3 one-handed7.5610.09
top 0.13%1 / 802
7×71:47.101:57.79
top 0.16%1 / 252
Megaminx34.3242.67
top 0.58%4 / 362
Skewb1.702.98
top 0.73%4 / 699
3×3 blindfolded21.0127.90
top 1.7%4 / 147
Pyraminx2.824.37
top 3.1%47 / 1,016
Square-19.1413.76
top 4.7%21 / 323
4×4 blindfolded2:24.43—
top 4.7%3 / 24
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves30.67
top 6.2%9 / 204
Clock7.208.39
top 11.7%54 / 366
5×5 blindfolded9:15.60—
top 18.5%5 / 13
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 11 cubes · 33:02—
top 25.9%10 / 54

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

All is Well 2015: 11.21Maru Cube for Kids Day 2015: 10.47Taiwan Cubing League - Taipei 2015: 11.61Taiwan Open 2015: 10.59Hsinchu Summer Open 2015: 10.69Magic Revenge 2015: 11.27Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2015: 9.04Twisting Fingers in New Taipei City 2015: 9.90Taiwan Cubing League - Taichung 2015: 9.80Taipei Open 2015: 7.81Hsinchu Winter Open 2016: 8.65Big Cubes Challenge 2016: 8.11All is Well 2016: 7.73Taichung Cube Open 2016: 7.32Maru Cube Day 2016: 6.23Happy Cubing Taiwan 2016: 7.12Kaohsiung Open 2016: 6.71Taiwan Championship 2016: 6.93Kaohsiung Winter Open 2016: 6.59Taipei Open 2017: 6.60All is Well 2017: 7.10Maru Cube Day 2017: 6.74Lanyang Open 2017: 5.19Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 6.27Kaohsiung Autumn Open 2017: 6.01Taiwan Championship 2017: 6.70Hsinchu Winter Open 2018: 7.47Kaohsiung Spring Open 2018: 6.35CK Cubing Party 2018: 5.97Maru X 2018: 5.60WCA Asian Championship 2018: 6.34Taiwan Championship 2018: 6.32Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2019: 6.18Maru Cube Day 2019: 5.94Dream One Cube Open 2019: 6.09Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2019: 5.82Lanyang Open 2019: 5.83Taiwan Championship 2019: 6.15Taiwan Championship 2020: 5.89CK Cubing Party 2022: 4.99Chiayi Open 2022: 4.78Pingtung Summer Open 2022: 5.46Maru Cube Day 2022: 5.51Taoyuan Cubing Open 2022: 5.49Yunlin Winter Open 2022: 5.03Taiwan Championship 2022: 5.83Taichung Open 2023: 5.57CK Cubing Party 2023: 5.62Taiwan Cubing Challenge 2023: 5.49New Taipei Open 2023: 5.68Maru Cube Day 2023: 4.86Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 5.54Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 5.28Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2023: 5.32Taiwan Championship 2023: 5.08Kaohsiung Winter Open 2024: 4.34HCHS Winter Open 2024: 5.47Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2024: 5.24Taipei Summer Open 2024: 6.03Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2024: 5.23Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 5.55Tokai Open PM 2024: 5.95Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2024: 4.98Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 4.81Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 4.27Taiwan Championship 2024: 5.18Pingtung Winter Open 2025: 5.51BQHS Spring Open 2025: 4.73Zhongshan Open 2025: 4.15Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2025: 5.08Taipei Summer Open 2025: 5.13Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 4.89Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 5.15Hsinchu Summer Open 2025: 5.11Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 4.65Taiwan Championship 2025: 5.02Shin Kong Cube Open - Taitung 2025: 5.73Chien Kuo Cubing Party 2026: 5.22Shin Kong Cube Open - New Taipei 2026: 5.604.1511.617 Mar 20159 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-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 1.61 away.
  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.