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Timothy Yang

3×3 · top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019YANT03

Timothy Yang has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.52, set at PBs in Palisades Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 174th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since July 2019, he has put 1,673 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.83 in July 2019 to 5.52, a 30% improvement. Timothy has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time
5.52
signature single · PBs in Palisades Open 2026
1,673
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.526.70
top 0.25%174 / 59,724
4×425.2829.80
top 0.77%127 / 19,072
Megaminx39.4541.45
top 1.4%93 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed10.5513.10
top 1.5%232 / 15,683
Clock4.195.32
top 2.7%230 / 8,927
5×553.711:03.68
top 2.9%237 / 9,401
Square-18.4712.79
top 3.7%273 / 6,743
Pyraminx3.035.81
top 3.7%993 / 28,708
2×22.012.75
top 4.8%1,927 / 40,951
6×62:08.502:14.55
top 14.7%531 / 4,196
Skewb4.655.94
top 15.6%2,446 / 18,907
7×73:20.833:26.24
top 16.6%463 / 3,184

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

Massachusetts Championship 2019: 7.83Empire State Fall 2022: 6.03Troy Story 2023: 6.23Empire State Winter Whirl 2023: 5.67Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023: 6.99Westport Warmup 2023: 6.08Mystic Cubikon 2023: 7.17Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 6.83Rhode Island Winter 2024: 6.19Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 6.82Northampton Newcomers B 2024: 6.25Edgemont Cubing 2024: 6.61Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 5.98Spring into Summit 2024: 6.25A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 6.88Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.23CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 6.50M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 6.32Springfield Cube Day 2024: 6.51Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 6.18PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 6.61PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 6.30Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 7.04Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.62Connecticut Championship 2025: 6.44Westport Fall 2025: 6.75Cubing in Westerly RI 2025: 5.90Westport Icebreaker 2026: 6.15PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 5.52PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 5.89Edgemont Cubing 2026: 5.98Cubing in Westerly RI 2026: 5.61Westport Summer 2026: 5.90Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.28Flushing Glow Afternoon 2026: 5.665.527.8326 Jul 201918 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.