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Robert Yau

3×3 one-handed · top 0.3% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2009 · 2009YAUR01

Robert Yau has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.44, set at London Open 2019, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 128 competitions since July 2009, he has put 9,972 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.90 in July 2009 to 6.29, a 36% improvement. Robert has entered 128 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.3% of 73,695 all-time
8.44
signature single · London Open 2019
9,972
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 one-handed8.4412.14
top 0.3%9 / 1,851
4×423.4627.96
top 0.4%14 / 2,071
3×3 Fewest Moves19 moves25.00
top 0.45%4 / 372
3×36.297.87
top 0.68%58 / 6,689
2×21.292.26
top 1.3%108 / 4,895
Pyraminx2.113.95
top 1.3%58 / 3,656
5×549.2155.60
top 1.6%24 / 1,151
Megaminx40.9447.99
top 1.8%31 / 966
6×61:35.541:44.65
top 3.0%17 / 548
Square-18.4313.06
top 3.6%38 / 778
Skewb2.734.73
top 3.8%84 / 2,421
7×72:40.322:45.73
top 5.6%25 / 459
Clock7.599.50
top 13.3%192 / 1,232
3×3 blindfolded1:15.331:36.02
top 18.0%87 / 311
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 24:07—
top 54.5%87 / 126

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

UK Masters 2009: 9.90Bristol Open 2009: 10.11Bristol Spring 2010: 10.21Swedish Open 2010: 9.53UK Open 2010: 9.66French Open 2011: 7.28Vårgårda Open 2011: 8.06Guildford Summer Open 2011: 9.28UK Open 2011: 8.59Rapid Dash Open 2012: 7.43Weston-super-Mare 2012: 9.37N8W8 Summer 2012: 9.61European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 8.59UK Open 2012: 8.81Leicester Open 2013: 7.65Nottingham Open 2013: 7.88World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.34Berkeley Summer 2013: 6.91N8W8 Summer 2013: 8.62Guildford Open 2013: 8.18Cuthberts Open 2013: 8.11UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.45Nottingham Open 2014: 8.45Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 7.14Nottingham Summer 2014: 8.24Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 8.84Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 8.91ABHC 2014: 8.87Cuthberts Open 2014: 7.06UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 6.90Oxford Winter 2014: 7.62Harrow Spring 2015: 7.94Edinburgh Spring 2015: 7.71Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 8.16Welwyn Garden City 2015: 7.53World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 8.38The Glorious North 2015: 8.06August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 7.81Cuthberts Open 2015: 7.26UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 7.29Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 7.62Manchester Open 2016: 7.86Exeter Open 2016: 7.28North London Open 2016: 7.77European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 7.66Macclesfield Open 2016: 7.75August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 7.95Guildford Open 2016: 7.14UK Championship 2016: 7.94Birmingham Open 2016: 7.93Manchester Open 2017: 7.96Hamburg Open 2017: 7.48Peterborough Open 2017: 8.78Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 7.93Crawley Open 2017: 7.92London Open 2017: 7.81World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.81Swiss Open 2017: 7.56August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 6.97Guildford Open 2017: 8.32UK Championship 2017: 6.95Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 8.26Welsh Open 2018: 7.26Manchester Open 2018: 7.52Guildford Open 2018: 7.96High Wycombe Open 2018: 7.22Hastings Open 2018: 6.37Peterborough Open 2018: 7.58WCA European Championship 2018: 6.77August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 7.43Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 7.55UK Championship 2018: 7.52Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 7.79Cambridge Open 2018: 8.68Fontwell Open 2019: 7.36Welsh Open 2019: 6.49Chester Open 2019: 8.29Lincoln Open 2019: 7.40London Open 2019: 7.19High Wycombe Open 2019: 7.25Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 7.82Warm Up Canberra 2019: 7.18Warm Up Sydney 2019: 7.58WCA World Championship 2019: 6.90August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 7.13UK Championship 2019: 7.45Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 7.97Guildford Open 2020: 7.88Fontwell Open 2020: 7.60Doncaster Open 2020: 7.47Manchester Open 2020: 7.00Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 6.62Stevenage Spring 2022: 7.96Glasgow Open 2022: 7.67Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 6.29Lincoln Summer 2022: 6.99Droitwich Spa Autumn 2022: 7.29Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 7.28East London Autumn 2022: 7.39Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 7.43UK New Year Countdown 2023: 7.16Guildford Winter 2023: 7.20Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023: 8.45Suffolk Summer 2023: 7.32Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.91Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.31Guildford Autumn 2023: 6.98Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 8.08Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.33Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.08Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 6.64Swisscubing Cup Final 2024: 7.60Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.99Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 7.496.2910.2111 Jul 200922 Aug 2025

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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 3.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.