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Wang Ma (马旺)

Square-1 · top 0.42% of 25,272 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016MAWA01

Wang Ma (马旺) has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 5.37, set at Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.42% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in China. Until October 2018, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since July 2016, he has put 1,351 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.85 in July 2016 to 7.81, a 44% improvement. Wang has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.42% of 25,272 all-time
5.37
signature single · Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025
1,351
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
Square-15.377.26
top 0.42%7 / 1,362
2×21.232.50
top 1.1%124 / 15,796
3×37.819.15
top 2.5%888 / 28,153
Pyraminx3.365.36
top 4.9%588 / 10,224
4×434.0040.00
top 5.8%584 / 5,926
Skewb3.415.79
top 7.2%400 / 5,004
3×3 one-handed16.4217.80
top 11.2%1,096 / 5,922
5×51:23.181:32.41
top 21.7%1,043 / 2,816
Clock11.6713.36
top 33.4%793 / 1,843
Megaminx2:17.64—
top 55.2%1,391 / 1,678
6×64:18.94—
early days — 3 solves1,201 / 1,349

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

Chongqing Open 2016: 13.85Xi'an Open 2016: 13.04Xi'an New Year 2017: 11.91China Championship 2017: 11.81Xi'an New Year 2018: 11.99Inner Mongolia Winter 2018: 10.79Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2018: 11.51Hefei Summer 2018: 9.97Shenzhen Open 2018: 10.09China Championship 2018: 10.61Xi'an Open 2018: 9.82Hefei Spring 2019: 10.54Xi'an Cherry Blossom 2019: 11.58Linfen Open 2019: 9.27China Championship 2019: 10.80Xi'an New Year 2020: 9.58Guangzhou Good Afternoon 2020: 10.15Shenzhen Good Morning 2021: 9.78Shenzhen Nanshan Afternoon 2021: 10.03Guangdong Open 2021: 9.50Cubing in the Valley 2023: 8.11Mountains Open Up 2023: 7.81Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 9.30ALL1- Empire State 2024: 8.30Empire State Winter 2025: 8.42Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 8.54Austin Spring Open 2025: 8.17Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.69Saratoga Springs Summer 2025: 9.29Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 7.88Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 8.43New York New Year 2025: 8.51Ohio State Winter 2026: 9.20UMass Spring 2026: 8.69Seattle Summer 2026: 8.847.8113.8516 Jul 201611 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 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.