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Tan Jin Kang

3×3 · top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022KANG10

Tan Jin Kang has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.00, set at Malaysia Cube Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3rd in Malaysia. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since September 2022, he has put 578 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.35 in December 2022 to 5.00, a 32% improvement. Tan has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time
5.00
signature single · Malaysia Cube Championship 2025
578
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×35.006.88
top 0.12%3 / 3,773
3×3 one-handed9.4410.61
top 0.72%7 / 1,327
2×21.152.45
top 0.9%16 / 2,541
4×427.1729.00
top 1.4%25 / 1,219
5×51:05.261:13.42
top 8.5%69 / 617
Skewb4.6410.94
top 15.5%179 / 1,053
Megaminx1:38.341:42.65
top 33.6%222 / 518
Pyraminx7.809.76
top 34.5%697 / 1,723
7×74:29.594:48.73
early days — 3 solves109 / 188
6×63:16.753:24.02
early days — 3 solves151 / 232
3×3 blindfolded2:54.45—
early days — 2 solves79 / 169

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

Penang Cube Open 2022: 7.35UoSM Cube Day 2023: 7.11UTM Speedcubing Open 2023: 7.58Singapore AMK CC Cubing A 2023: 7.26Stulang Cube Party 2023: 7.22Johor Mini 2023: 6.59UoSM Cube Open 2024: 6.26Johor Cube Open 2024: 6.38Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 6.53Penang Cube Masters 2024: 6.31UoSM Cube Open SOR 2025: 5.93Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 5.00Singapore Championship 2026: 6.09MYHM UoSM Final Cube Open 2026: 6.04Mofunland Speedcubing Singapore 2026: 6.325.007.5831 Dec 20225 Sep 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.