People · China
Ningyan Tang (汤柠言)
3×3 · top 9.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025TANG01
Ningyan Tang (汤柠言) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.76, set at Beijing Autumn Begins 2026, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,805th in China. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2025, he has put 60 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.85 in January 2025 to 10.76, a 40% improvement. Ningyan has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.76 | 13.07 | top 9.7% | 3,805 / 28,153 | |
| 2×2 | 5.23 | 8.82 | top 42.2% | 7,281 / 15,796 |
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
- 17 May 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.39 at Beijing Summer 2025.
- 4 Jan 2025First competition: Beijing Winter 2025. A 17.85 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Start of Summer Beijing 2026 · 1 May 2026
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Only 3x3 2025 · 23 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing University Cube League 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Summer 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Winter 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
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.
- Yutong Wang (王宇彤) — met in 12 rounds, never finished ahead
- Junze Huang (黄俊泽) — met in 12 rounds, never finished ahead
- Hengyu Xiong (熊珩宇) — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
- A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
Targets move as he improves.