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Tianyu Yang (杨天宇)

3×3 blindfolded · top 1.9% of 12,178 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024YANG18

Tianyu Yang (杨天宇) has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 21.75, set at Please Be Quiet Xi'an 2026, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in China. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since March 2024, he has put 324 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Tianyu has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 1.9% of 12,178 all-time
21.75
signature single · Please Be Quiet Xi'an 2026
324
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×3 blindfolded21.7534.04
top 1.9%27 / 1,183
3×39.1910.66
top 5.3%2,044 / 28,153
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves28.67
top 6.2%60 / 1,058
2×22.404.71
top 8.0%1,152 / 15,796
3×3 one-handed14.9716.26
top 8.1%779 / 5,922
Pyraminx4.137.26
top 8.3%992 / 10,224
Clock6.3910.27
top 8.7%186 / 1,843
4×438.5542.68
top 10.4%1,099 / 5,926
5×51:11.731:21.70
top 12.9%631 / 2,816
Megaminx1:07.221:09.29
top 14.0%405 / 1,678
3×3 Multi-Blind16 of 21 cubes · 57:48—
top 15.2%43 / 278
Square-115.7421.60
top 18.1%286 / 1,362
4×4 blindfolded4:37.537:10.47
top 18.9%36 / 149
Skewb5.107.72
top 18.9%1,178 / 5,004
7×73:32.713:45.25
top 20.7%419 / 1,261
6×62:21.282:26.30
top 21.1%472 / 1,349
5×5 blindfolded10:19.00—
early days — 2 solves26 / 95

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 Open 2024: 10.12Guiyang Open 2024: 9.19Xi'an Open 2024: 9.87Hangzhou Open 2024: 9.55Yancheng Open 2025: 11.62Guangdong Open - Revival & Rival 2026: 10.55Jiajiang Open 2026: 10.919.1911.6230 Mar 202425 Jul 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-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.