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Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳)

Pyraminx · top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2012 · 2012GAOK01

Kaiyang Gao (高凯阳) has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.00, set at Changsha Open 2023, puts him in the top 1.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 123rd in China. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 72 competitions since December 2012, he has put 3,121 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.09 in December 2012 to 8.10, a 55% improvement. Kaiyang has entered 72 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.1% of 129,321 all-time
2.00
signature single · Changsha Open 2023
3,121
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Pyraminx2.002.92
top 1.1%123 / 10,224
2×21.563.07
top 2.4%284 / 15,796
Skewb2.514.47
top 2.9%156 / 5,004
3×38.109.76
top 3.0%1,073 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed15.7117.67
top 9.6%924 / 5,922
4×439.4244.28
top 11.4%1,215 / 5,926
Megaminx1:14.841:28.29
top 18.6%560 / 1,678
Square-119.6029.78
top 27.0%455 / 1,362
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves43.67
top 30.0%322 / 1,058
5×51:36.341:46.55
top 32.5%1,471 / 2,816
Clock12.5113.87
top 37.4%895 / 1,843
7×74:37.405:17.48
top 43.6%806 / 1,261
3×3 blindfolded3:03.044:20.97
top 53.4%739 / 1,183
6×63:29.803:52.62
top 54.6%1,012 / 1,349
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 4 cubes · 24:37—
early days — 1 solve272 / 278

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

Xi'an Newborn 2012: 18.09Xi'an Winter Open 2014: 15.32Xi'an Open 2015: 11.20Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2016: 12.30Xi'an Summer 2016: 11.59Taiyuan Open 2016: 12.24Cube of Odd Numbers 2016: 14.88Chongqing Open 2016: 13.30Jinhua Open 2016: 16.33Xi'an Open 2016: 11.65Asian Championship 2016: 12.09Wuhan Open 2016: 13.32XJTU Open 2016: 12.86Xi'an New Year 2017: 10.72ZUA Open 2017: 13.76Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2017: 12.46Lanzhou Spring 2017: 12.55Taiyuan Open 2017: 11.42Wuhan NxN Open 2017: 10.99Luoyang Open 2017: 11.78China Championship 2017: 11.35Inner Mongolia Summer 2017: 11.07Ningxia Open 2017: 12.09Xuchang Open 2017: 10.01XPU Open 2017: 10.94Luoyang Spring 2018: 10.17Guilin Open 2018: 10.20Linfen Open 2018: 9.51Baoji Open 2018: 10.06Ningxia Open 2018: 11.44Qianjiang Summer Open 2018: 10.43China Championship 2018: 11.11Lanzhou Autumn 2018: 9.72WIT Open 2018: 10.03Xi'an Open 2018: 10.30Chengdu Winter Open 2018: 11.01Zhengzhou Open 2018: 9.98Taiyuan Winter 2018: 10.18Xianyang Open 2019: 9.20Anyang Open 2019: 9.60Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019: 8.99Lanzhou Spring 2019: 10.57China Championship 2019: 10.86Baoji Open 2019: 10.36Ningxia Open 2019: 10.07Xi'an 10th Anniversary 2019: 8.61Xinxiang Open 2019: 9.98Luoyang Open 2019: 8.89Chengdu Winter 2019: 10.31Xi'an New Year 2020: 10.13Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021: 10.34Xi'an Cherry Blossom AM 2021: 12.50Zhengzhou Summer 2021: 10.12Wuhan Open 2021: 9.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.26Chongqing Open 2023: 9.19Changsha Open 2023: 9.01Shenzhen Open 2023: 8.36Luoyang Spring 2024: 8.73Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2024: 10.08Chengdu Summer 2024: 10.09Deqing Small Cubes Summer 2024: 8.99Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 8.10Nanchang Spring 2025: 9.43Xi'an Summer 2025: 8.30Ningbo Autumn 2025: 8.80Xi'an Autumn 2025: 9.50Zhengzhou Zest 2025: 8.80Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2026: 9.208.1018.0923 Dec 20124 Apr 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.