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Matthew Yang

3×3 · top 0.14% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019YANG92

Matthew Yang has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.09, set at Wellington Summer 2023, puts him in the top 0.14% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in New Zealand. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since June 2019, he has put 773 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.56 in June 2019 to 5.09, a 52% improvement. Matthew has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.14% of 284,439 all-time
5.09
signature single · Wellington Summer 2023
773
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×35.096.88
top 0.14%8 / 2,095
2×20.801.69
top 0.23%14 / 1,615
4×425.1831.35
top 0.74%12 / 722
3×3 one-handed10.9214.74
top 1.8%20 / 600
5×553.551:08.26
top 2.9%18 / 355
Pyraminx3.385.63
top 5.0%86 / 1,141
Megaminx1:06.231:17.28
top 13.5%57 / 283
Skewb6.107.56
top 26.5%197 / 666

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

Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.56Wellington Mind Games 2020: 9.63Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 7.86Wellington Mind Games 2021: 8.84Puzzling Porirua 2022: 7.51NZ North Island Championship 2022: 8.26Wellington Summer 2023: 5.09Half Turns Hataitai 2023: 5.86New Zealand Nationals 2023: 6.56Welcome to Wellington 2024: 6.95Solve Well In Wellington 2024: 6.33Only Cubes in Wellington 2024: 5.63Just Solve in Johnsonville 2025: 5.73Johnsonville FTOpen 2025: 5.60Wellington Skewb Showdown 2025: 6.55Wellington Winter 2025: 6.48Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 5.63Wellington Spring 2025: 6.82GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 6.025.0910.5628 Jun 201910 Jul 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.