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Mark Yang
3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023YANG36
Mark Yang has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.15, set at Michigan Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 910th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since June 2023, he has put 125 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.55 in June 2023 to 7.15, a 25% improvement. Mark has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.15 | 9.87 | top 1.5% | 910 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.24 | 15.03 | top 4.8% | 678 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 37.89 | 44.60 | top 9.7% | 1,448 / 19,072 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Jun 2024Five personal bests in one day at Wisconsin Qualifier 2024.
- 24 Jun 2023First competition: Little Giant Open 2023. A 10.19 3×3 single to start from.
- 24 Jun 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.55 at Little Giant Open 2023.
Competitions
- UIUC Fall 2025 · 15 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Michigan Championship 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Wisconsin Qualifier 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Little Giant Open 2023 · 24 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Simon Kellum — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lucas Lippman-Bruno — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Ant Irizarry — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
Targets move as he improves.