People · China
Tengsen Yang (杨腾森)
2×2 · top 1.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025YANG23
Tengsen Yang (杨腾森) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.36, set at Beijing Winter 2026, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 184th in China. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since March 2025, he has put 114 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.86 in March 2025 to 7.31, a 26% improvement. Tengsen has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | China | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.36 | 3.47 | top 1.6% | 184 / 15,796 | |
| 3×3 | 7.31 | 8.71 | top 1.7% | 607 / 28,153 | |
| 3×3 blindfolded | 2:59.00 | — | early days — 2 solves | 724 / 1,183 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 30 Mar 2025First competition: Xuzhou Newcomers 2025. A 9.86 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Beijing Autumn Begins 2026 · 22 Aug 2026
- Start of Summer Beijing 2026 · 1 May 2026
- Beijing Spring Open 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Beijing Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Beijing Only 3x3 2025 · 23 Nov 2025
- Zibo Open 2025 · 10 Aug 2025
- Harbin Open 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Xuzhou Newcomers 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
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.
- Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Quanyu Li (李荃宇) — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Hengyu Xiong (熊珩宇) — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.