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Ryan Ylagan

3×3 · top 0.32% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022YLAG01

Ryan Ylagan has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.68, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.32% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 221st in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since October 2022, he has put 916 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.14 in October 2022 to 5.68, a 38% improvement. Ryan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.32% of 288,433 all-time
5.68
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
916
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.687.36
top 0.32%221 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed9.4611.71
top 0.74%117 / 15,900
2×21.131.63
top 0.85%364 / 41,674
Clock3.173.80
top 1.0%103 / 9,172
4×431.9436.82
top 4.2%677 / 19,354
Pyraminx3.728.14
top 6.4%1,664 / 29,168
Square-110.9412.81
top 7.9%578 / 6,846
Skewb5.688.88
top 23.4%3,792 / 19,164
Megaminx1:26.801:35.36
top 26.2%1,848 / 8,026
3×3 blindfolded2:07.04—
top 35.8%755 / 2,128
5×51:45.321:54.55
top 39.5%3,221 / 9,537
6×65:40.33—
early days — 1 solve3,696 / 4,262

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

DFW Cubing Fall 2022: 9.14Houston Fall 2022: 8.55Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 8.08DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 8.06Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 7.98CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 8.88Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 6.95DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 6.81DFW Winter Variation 2024: 6.09Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 6.42Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.20Austin NxN 2024: 6.65Texas Championship 2024: 7.14DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 6.93Cube Against Cancer DFW 2025: 7.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.68Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025: 5.71San Antonio Fall 2025: 6.93Texas Championship 2025: 6.15GAN Southern Championship 2026: 6.36Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.885.689.1423 Oct 20222 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 — 355 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 1.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.