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Tengsen Yang (杨腾森)

3×3 · top 1.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025YANG23

Tengsen Yang (杨腾森) has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.71, set at Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 393rd in China. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since March 2025, he has put 131 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.86 in March 2025 to 6.71, a 32% improvement. Tengsen has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.0% of 288,433 all-time
6.71
signature single · Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026
131
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.718.54
top 1.0%393 / 28,499
2×21.363.47
top 1.6%188 / 15,939
3×3 blindfolded1:37.12—
top 25.5%356 / 1,184

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

Xuzhou Newcomers 2025: 9.86Harbin Open 2025: 8.10Zibo Open 2025: 8.34Beijing Only 3x3 2025: 8.44Beijing Winter 2026: 7.98Beijing Spring Open 2026: 7.31Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 7.63Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 7.91Beijing Autumn Rivalry 2026: 6.716.719.8630 Mar 20251 Oct 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 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.