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Kai Wen Yang

Skewb · top 2.7% of 73,281 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022YANG19

Kai Wen Yang has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.44, set at Michigan Championship 2024, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 39th in Canada. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since August 2022, he has put 864 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.03 in August 2022 to 9.09, a 35% improvement. Kai has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 2.7% of 73,281 all-time
2.44
signature single · Michigan Championship 2024
864
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Skewb2.445.16
top 2.7%39 / 2,907
2×21.842.80
top 3.8%243 / 7,173
3×39.099.75
top 5.1%486 / 10,392
3×3 blindfolded36.4852.14
top 5.8%24 / 351
Pyraminx3.736.34
top 6.4%220 / 4,858
Square-110.8314.45
top 7.6%61 / 952
3×3 one-handed16.0417.14
top 10.3%230 / 2,620
4×440.4742.59
top 12.7%318 / 3,118
Clock8.029.01
top 15.3%120 / 1,029
Megaminx1:10.531:22.17
top 15.9%132 / 1,375
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 14 cubes · 54:26—
top 17.1%14 / 112
5×51:22.921:29.08
top 21.5%251 / 1,499
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves38.67
top 30.0%94 / 283
6×62:51.912:59.15
top 37.0%188 / 665
7×74:37.154:40.49
top 43.5%181 / 503
4×4 blindfolded11:23.00—
early days — 2 solves32 / 60

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

Battle of Waterloo 2022: 14.03Richmond Hill 2022: 12.34Ajax First-Timers 2022: 12.15Oakville Fall A 2022: 13.16Appleby Winter A 2023: 13.22Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 12.54London Winter B 2023: 13.93Pickering D 2023: 11.61Markham 3x3x3 Afternoon 2023: 12.00Guelph 2023: 13.02Southern Ontario Summer - Newmarket 2023: 11.37Canadian Championship 2023: 10.61Appleby Summer B 2023: 10.32Appleby Fall A 2023: 11.79Scarborough Fall A 2023: 10.06Nouveaux Venus à Montréal B 2024: 9.98Battle of Waterloo 2024: 10.24Michigan Championship 2024: 9.88Kitchener Mini Afternoon 2024: 9.21Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 9.95Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.78Pickering Favourites Fall 2025: 9.099.0914.0320 Aug 20221 Nov 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-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.