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Tay Wen Chian (郑文谦)

Pyraminx · top 0.57% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023CHIA14

Tay Wen Chian (郑文谦) has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.62, set at Malaysia Cube Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.57% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in Malaysia. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2023, he has put 678 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.21 in September 2023 to 8.11, a 76% improvement. Tay has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.57% of 129,321 all-time
1.62
signature single · Malaysia Cube Championship 2025
678
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingMalaysia
Pyraminx1.622.13
top 0.57%9 / 1,723
Skewb2.093.41
top 1.6%18 / 1,053
2×21.652.71
top 2.8%64 / 2,541
Clock4.314.95
top 2.9%10 / 406
3×38.119.33
top 3.0%144 / 3,773
3×3 one-handed13.2415.62
top 4.8%63 / 1,327
4×434.2437.71
top 6.1%95 / 1,219
Megaminx56.731:05.29
top 8.3%67 / 518
Square-113.3319.02
top 12.6%54 / 364
5×51:14.661:22.03
top 15.0%127 / 617
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves47.67
early days — 3 solves90 / 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

IUKL SOR 2023: 34.21Sunway Velocity Mall Open 2024: 13.92Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2024: 11.62Malaysia 15th Anniversary Championship 2024: 15.12XMUM Cube Open 2025: 11.67One Shamelin Cube Open 2025: 9.23Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2025: 8.70Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 8.58MyFamilyFest Speedcubing Challenge 2025: 8.80XMUM Cube Open 2026: 8.111 Shamelin Cube Open 2026: 8.88Selangor Cube Open 2026: 9.66Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2026: 8.698.1134.2130 Sep 202322 Aug 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.