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Shawn Yang

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017YANG64

Shawn Yang has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.10, set at Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 141st in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since June 2017, he has put 1,058 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.76 in June 2017 to 7.10, a 69% improvement. Shawn has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.10
signature single · Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024
1,058
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×37.109.58
top 1.4%141 / 10,392
2×21.583.13
top 2.5%161 / 7,173
Pyraminx3.805.85
top 6.7%231 / 4,858
3×3 one-handed15.3919.24
top 8.9%199 / 2,620
4×444.5550.13
top 17.7%446 / 3,118
Skewb7.6613.17
top 38.7%970 / 2,907
5×51:55.852:02.34
top 46.6%603 / 1,499
Megaminx2:32.052:51.19
top 62.1%742 / 1,375
6×64:58.95—
early days — 1 solve490 / 665

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

Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 22.76Puget Sound Fall 2017: 16.75SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 15.26Whistler Open 2017: 11.69Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 10.69Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 11.71Skyline Open 2018: 10.62Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 10.68Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 11.31Puget Sound Spring 2018: 11.77St. John's Spring Open 2018: 11.60SnoCo Summer 2018: 11.92Vancouver Select 2018: 10.45SnoCo Fall 2018: 11.35Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 10.82Welcome to 2019: 9.69UBC Open 2019: 10.57Vancouver Island 2019: 10.51Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 10.58Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 11.34Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 10.75Puget Sound Summer 2019: 10.15Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 8.84Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 10.57UBC Open 2020: 11.42Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020: 8.45BC Cubing Comeback B 2021: 9.58Richmond Open Summer B 2022: 9.26Cubing on Par B 2023: 9.52BC Spring Solving B 2023: 8.44Canadian Championship 2023: 9.49SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 9.91Canada's Best in the West 2024: 9.08Vancouver Newcomers Morning 2024: 7.10Pitt Meadows Spring Open 2024: 8.03Maple Ridge Favourites 2025: 9.107.1022.7610 Jun 20174 Jan 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.10 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.