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Qinghan Yang (杨清菡)

3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2021 · 2021YANG01

Qinghan Yang (杨清菡) has been competing for 6 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.26, set at Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026, puts her in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,216th in China. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since January 2021, she has put 50 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 15.70 in January 2021 to 8.26, a 47% improvement. Qinghan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.26
signature single · Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026
50
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×38.269.49
top 3.3%1,216 / 28,153
Pyraminx5.107.60
top 13.8%1,638 / 10,224
2×24.967.55
top 38.8%6,700 / 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

Chengdu New Year Afternoon 2021: 15.70Xi'an Cherry Blossom AM 2021: 15.60Chongqing Open 2023: 8.72Chengdu Summer 2024: 8.51Chengdu Welcoming Summer 2026: 8.268.2615.703 Jan 20214 May 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as she improves.