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Tan Kwan Yang

3×3 one-handed · top 0.19% of 74,621 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017YANT03

Tan Kwan Yang has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.93, set at Don't Sleep In Pelita Sungai Dua 2026, puts him in the top 0.19% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in Malaysia. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since December 2017, he has put 889 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.79 in December 2017 to 5.63, a 48% improvement. Tan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.19% of 74,621 all-time
7.93
signature single · Don't Sleep In Pelita Sungai Dua 2026
889
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
3×3 one-handed7.9311.75
top 0.19%2 / 1,350
Skewb1.303.14
top 0.2%4 / 1,065
3×35.637.91
top 0.3%9 / 3,825
Pyraminx2.994.42
top 3.6%61 / 1,746
2×21.802.93
top 3.6%83 / 2,582
4×436.1138.94
top 7.9%130 / 1,228
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves—
early days — 2 solves16 / 112

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

Malaysian Cube Championship 2017: 10.79Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2018: 9.43Unikl MFI Open 2018: 9.96STEM Cube Open Kuala Lumpur 2019: 7.85Putra Speedcubing Challenge 2019: 8.95Malaysia 10th Anniversary Cube Open 2019: 7.52Malaysia Cube Championship 2019: 7.97Selangor Cube Open 2019: 7.98YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 5.63Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 7.59Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 6.91Penang Cube Open 2022: 7.51IUKL SOR 2023: 7.36UoSM Cube Open 2024: 7.62Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 7.22Malaysia Newcomer 2025: 8.06One Shamelin Cube Open 2025: 7.73Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 8.60Gelugor Cube Carnival 2025: 6.88Don't Sleep In Pelita Sungai Dua 2026: 7.45Seremban Cube Challenge 2026: 6.415.6310.7930 Dec 20175 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-6 3×3 one-handed single — 5 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.