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Ong Yu Xian
Clock · top 2.6% of 32,048 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019XIAN03
Ong Yu Xian has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.17, set at Singapore Championship 2026, puts her in the top 2.6% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in Singapore. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since February 2019, she has put 202 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.00 in February 2019 to 8.67, a 54% improvement. Ong has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Singapore | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 4.17 | 6.03 | top 2.6% | 22 / 178 | |
| 3×3 | 8.67 | 10.83 | top 4.1% | 113 / 1,546 | |
| 4×4 | 38.92 | 45.55 | top 10.9% | 99 / 462 | |
| Megaminx | 1:05.92 | 1:23.10 | top 13.3% | 49 / 195 | |
| 2×2 | 3.07 | 4.97 | top 15.1% | 204 / 1,053 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 1:17.12 | — | top 18.5% | 24 / 81 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.02 | 1:36.20 | top 25.7% | 106 / 251 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.51 | 13.52 | top 32.1% | 255 / 645 | |
| Skewb | 7.89 | 10.99 | top 40.5% | 182 / 353 | |
| 6×6 | 3:37.83 | 3:47.22 | top 57.8% | 93 / 125 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 37.28 | 41.17 | top 61.3% | 340 / 460 | |
| 7×7 | 6:55.92 | — | early days — 1 solve | 87 / 96 |
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
- 13 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 8.90 at Johor Cube Open 2022.
- 18 Jun 2022First sub-15 3×3: 10.59 at Singapore Mofun & FIS Cubing 2022.
- 23 Feb 2019First competition: Singapore Cube Championship 2019. A 19.00 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Please Be Quiet Singapore April 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Championship 2026 · 20 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- NUS Open 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Megaland July 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- No Parity Mayhem Singapore 2025 · 18 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Don't DNF March Singapore 2025 · 23 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Skewby March 2025 · 9 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Singapore Small and Sides Feb 2025 · 23 Feb 2025
- Singapore Max February 2025 · 16 Feb 2025
- Singapore Championship 2025 · 7 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- A New Year in Singapore 2025 · 1 Jan 2025
- NTU Welcome 2023 · 31 Dec 2022
- Johor Cube Open 2022 · 13 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Singapore Mofun & FIS Cubing 2022 · 18 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Singapore Cube Championship 2019 · 23 Feb 2019
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 her.
- Ng Jia Quan (黄佳铨) — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Carmen Teo Bin Jie (张斌婕) — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
- Beth Lee — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.17 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
Targets move as she improves.