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Kayden Yang

2×2 · top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022YANG24

Kayden Yang has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.42, set at Missouri Championship 2026, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 721st in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,567 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.07 in October 2022 to 7.55, a 42% improvement. Kayden has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time
1.42
signature single · Missouri Championship 2026
1,567
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.422.67
top 1.8%721 / 40,951
3×37.5511.66
top 2.1%1,221 / 59,724
Square-110.0313.41
top 6.1%450 / 6,743
Clock5.827.46
top 6.7%521 / 8,927
Skewb3.446.28
top 7.3%1,139 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.476.68
top 10.1%2,619 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed16.9820.52
top 12.5%1,622 / 15,683
4×443.9549.91
top 17.0%2,576 / 19,072
Megaminx1:19.681:29.87
top 21.5%1,486 / 7,841
5×51:23.631:32.80
top 22.1%1,705 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves42.67
top 33.6%738 / 2,040
7×74:58.865:16.74
top 50.3%1,466 / 3,184
6×63:27.913:38.97
top 53.9%2,041 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded5:34.40—
early days — 3 solves1,729 / 2,092

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

Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 13.07UIUC Fall 2022: 13.19Iowa Fall 2022: 13.16Dubuque Winter 2023: 11.38Arkansolve 2023: 13.88Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 12.59CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 12.34Little Giant Open 2023: 9.84CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.75Springfield Summer Open 2023: 11.61Peoria Fall 2023: 11.07Concordia Turning Fall 2023: 11.09Nimble Hands in Noblesville 2024: 11.32CoMO Cubing Winter 2024: 11.64Bloomington Open 2024: 11.78Minxville Indiana 2024: 11.21Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.25Land of Lincoln 2024: 10.11Missouri Championship 2024: 7.55CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 11.19KCKC 6 Cubing for Cake 2024: 10.01Corinth Comic Con Cubing 2024: 9.86Concordia Turning Fall 2024: 11.75St. Louis Spring 2025: 10.30Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 12.21Land of Lincoln 2025: 11.58Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.56Ohio Championship 2025: 11.41Concordia Turning Winter 2026: 11.35Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 12.16COMO Cube-Off 2026: 10.26Missouri Championship 2026: 10.887.5513.882 Oct 20227 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.